Aside from golfing in Palm Springs, we took a celebrity home tour. The highlight was meeting Kenny Irwin, Palm Springs resident artist, whose yard is like a technicolor alien invasion. He’s off kilter, in the very best artistic way.
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- This duck had the perfect protected hiding place in the hedge.
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- Do these palm tree trunks look a little wiggly? They’re reflected in the water.
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- Look hard and you’ll see the little tiny golfers at the Mountain course in La Quinta.
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- Sinatra had this mid-century modern home built to bring the outside in. He had another house, for his friend Sammy Davis Jr., who wasn’t allowed to buy real estate because of his race.
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- This residential street corner, a block from Sinatra’s home, stopped us in our tracks. Two acres of huge colorful sculptures by Kenny Irwin.
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- Kenny Irwin, a one man artistic recycling machine. A close look reveals bowling balls, car parts and animal horns, pulled together with glue, foam sealant and spray paint.
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- Elvis bought this home because the #8 was lucky. Because 4+5=9, and 9+8=17, and 1+7=8, so it was double 8 lucky.
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- This piano is only big enough to hold letters. In fact, it’s the mailbox for the Liberace house. He was the highest paid entertainer in the world for decades.
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- Bob Hope’s house, a swoop of spaceship concrete, is still on the market, for a cool $25 million. Tom Cruise offered to buy it for the Scientologists, but the local neighborhood nixed that idea. Too many cars, they said.
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