Talk:Coachella Valley
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Moved to Wikipedia:Peer review. Can ya help a brudder bring this to featured status? - Lucky 6.9 04:57, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Would it be WAY to trivial to mention that Bugs Bunny was on his way to a carrot festival in the Coachella Valley when the events in his cartoon Bully for Bugs took place? ;) --JohnDBuell 04:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merge?
Is there any reason this article should not be merged with Palm Springs area? The two appear to be different terms for the same area. --Nelson Ricardo 09:50, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- I decided to be bold, and went ahead and did it. --Nelson Ricardo 10:16, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- When you ask a question, it works better if you allow more than 26 minutes for people to answer. :-) The two are not quite the same; for instance, you'll notice the map for this article clearly excludes Palm Springs and its immediate environs. While it is true that hydrographically Palm Springs is in the "upper Coachella Valley", and you will see that term sometimes, economically, culturally, and demographically the two are worlds apart. If you ask our friends who live in Rancho Mirage how they like the Coachella Valley, their first reaction would be to say "huh?" or "we don't live there!" Stan 12:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hi, Stan. That's what being bold is all about. A few references from the municipalities themselves [1] (Palm Springs is in the Coachella Valley), [2] (Rancho Mirage is in the Coachella Valley; please share with your friends). Also, the fourth paragraph of the article, before I came along, listed both Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage as being in the Coachella Valley [3]. I admit that I do not live in the area, but I did visit last autumn. The communities certainly did seem like a cohesive continuum, and all literature points to nine cities as being in the Valley. --Nelson Ricardo 18:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC) (edited twice within minutes of posting to add link & fix typo.)
- Sorry to harp, but here's one more link [4],from the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership. --Nelson Ricardo 20:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- As someone who grew up in Palm Springs, I can assure you that any longtime resident would consider Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, and Palm Desert to be very much a part of the Coachella Valley. Not an April Fool's joke, either! --PoppaInu 06:49, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- How interesting the article is named the "Coachella Valley". Any local resident considers Palm Springs the main symbol to the outside world of our area. It has national name recognition, unlike affluent communities of Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert and Indian Wells. To tell you the truth, the area's most populous is the oldest city, Indio, and the valley's namesake came from the farm town of Coachella. Historians learned the name was a misspelling back in the 1880's, it should been "Conchilla" or the Spanish term for the tiny "sea shells" found on the desert floor. The Coachella valley for millions of years was first part of the Gulf of California and broke off to become an inland lake that geologists call Lake Cahuilla that dried up thousands of years ago. Palm Springs, like Indio in the 1990's is currently in a business downturn along with Cathedral City. What's ironic is the fastest-growing area is "down valley" communities (i.e. La Quinta) and Desert Hot Springs, north of the I-10 enjoys an improving local economy after years of neglect. + 207.200.116.195 10:42, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
- Hi, Stan. That's what being bold is all about. A few references from the municipalities themselves [1] (Palm Springs is in the Coachella Valley), [2] (Rancho Mirage is in the Coachella Valley; please share with your friends). Also, the fourth paragraph of the article, before I came along, listed both Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage as being in the Coachella Valley [3]. I admit that I do not live in the area, but I did visit last autumn. The communities certainly did seem like a cohesive continuum, and all literature points to nine cities as being in the Valley. --Nelson Ricardo 18:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC) (edited twice within minutes of posting to add link & fix typo.)
- When you ask a question, it works better if you allow more than 26 minutes for people to answer. :-) The two are not quite the same; for instance, you'll notice the map for this article clearly excludes Palm Springs and its immediate environs. While it is true that hydrographically Palm Springs is in the "upper Coachella Valley", and you will see that term sometimes, economically, culturally, and demographically the two are worlds apart. If you ask our friends who live in Rancho Mirage how they like the Coachella Valley, their first reaction would be to say "huh?" or "we don't live there!" Stan 12:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
In comparison to the "Inland Empire", some people reference Coachella Valley as "Desert Empire".
Hopiakuta 22:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
The coachella valley contains palm springs, desert hot springs, indian wells, cathedral city, cabazon, and la quinta. It would be kind of dumb to merge them.
- The merge was already completed. Note that the merge was with Palm Springs Area. Palm Springs, California is still its own article. --Nelson Ricardo 14:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
"Conchilla" is just one suggestion for the original valley name. The other was that "Coachella" was a mispelling of the word "Cahuilla" (name of the local American Indian tribe) after the railroad survey expedition report by William Blake in 1853 the area was sometimes known as the Cahuilla Basin or the Salton Trough. - signed by an anon ip
