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Thunderbird
and Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage
email Claudine or call (760) 799 5308
You will also be pleased to
know that you will be in very good company in Rancho Mirage as many Academy
Award winners have had an association with our city, either as residents or as
members of one of our country clubs.
The homes in Thunderbird and Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage are by all means reflecting the history of the Country Clubs as far as the kind of owners and the kind of homes you can find there. Large acreage on the lots and larger houses, very well maintained landscaping and beautiful curb appeal. All togehter very established country club living style and outstanding golf courses.
In the 1950s, Hollywood
considered Rancho Mirage a hip, relaxing place to get away from the madness and
hubbub of Los Angeles. Most were Hollywood "A" list celebrities, and many were
Academy Award winners. Nearly all of the Oscar winners associated with our city
were members of Tamarisk or Thunderbird Country Club.
Bing Crosby, Humphrey
Bogart, had a membership at Tamarisk and visited the area often.
Former circus acrobat Burt
Lancaster, Gregory Peck, Mary Pickford, were also members of the Thunderbird
country Club.
Ginger Rogers, who wintered
in Rancho Mirage for many years at her Thunderbird Country Club home, won the
1944 Best Actress Oscar for the dramatic film, Kitty Foyle.
Producer Irving Allen, also
a member of Tamarisk, won the 1947 Short Subject Documentary award for Climbing
the Matterhorn
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