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While investigating suite's amenities, Mom and I were wonderfully surprised to find a lovely basket of fresh fruit, cheese, and crackers for our enjoyment. Our room has a large walk-in closet that also serves as clever hiding place for honor bar. The Inn complimentarily stocks it with a variety of soda and water bottles. During our adventures around town, they graciously replenished our supply. The complimentary bottle of champagne coupon that we downloaded from their website was certainly used to add that extra relaxing feeling to our stay. Yes, you can also do same. (http://www.inglesideinn.com)
While sipping our champagne, munching on bits of cheese and wandering around gardens and verandas, we educated ourselves about history of Inn through vintage photo reproductions that are displayed throughout passageways.
Ruth Hardy originally purchased property as her private residence in 1930s. She was Palm Springs councilwoman who was responsible for lighted palm trees along Palm Canyon Drive. One of her passions was playing hostess to dozens of film stars and celebrities. Unlike other "happening" places at time, reservations were not taken. One could only stay if personally invited by Ms. Hardy. Her list of acceptable guests included likes of Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Howard Hughes, to only name a few. Unfortunately, after her death Inn fell into disrepair.
Because of Inn's surviving mystique and character, in 1975, after only 15 minutes of looking at property, Melvyn Haber from New York purchased it. After spending a small fortune restoring, remodeling, refurbishing, and redecorating Inn, he reopened its doors to all guests - well-known and unknown - equally. You can enjoy this well-documented adventure by reading his entertaining book, "Bedside Stories From The Ingleside Inn, by Mel Haber". This book journeys through steps and mis-steps of getting
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