Talk:La Quinta, California

The city was nothing 20 years ago!
I live in nearby Indio Cal. and noticed a small desert community 20 years ago spread out like wildfire. La Quinta is one of California's historic boomtowns that seem to grow overnight, like highly publicized growing cities of Irvine, Moreno Valley, Rancho Cucamonga, Simi Valley and pretty much the Los Angeles/So. Cal. megalopolis took 80 years to be where it is now. In 1982, La Quinta incorporated to have a city council when the population was 4,000 (but 1,500 year-round residents). By 1990, there was 11,215 along with 5,500 seasonal residents, and it doubled again to over 25,000 (plus 15,000 are seasonal). According to the city limit sign on Hwy. 111 (the Sgt. Bruce Lee Memorial Highway named for the local highway patrol officer killed in a shootout), there are 35,600 residents at this time (2006 estimate). The number of seasonal residents could exceed 20,000, thus La Quinta in its' 28 square mile area is nearly built up and houses are now worth over $450,000, with some million-dollar condos and "mansionettes". I remember only a square mile, the La Quinta Resort and Club was the main thing there amid a desert and some citrus groves. The laid out roads had a few hundred homes and mainly deserted, but now it's an entire community with no vacant lots. The dizzy growth of La Quinta needs to stay managed, planned and controlled or residents may find themselves in another urban area sooner or later. + 207.200.116.131 03:01, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Demographics Section
There needs to be a sitation for the remarks on the La Quinta Resort and Club. Matthew Peters 09:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I've read it. Must be a local, but this is an encyclopedia not an opinion page. There's a bit of truth on the ethnic makeup of this community where I happen to live, and the reputation to have celebrities who were Jewish American or "ethnic" other than WASP in the 1950's. Walter Annenberg experienced discrimination from the very group he felt has belonged to, the rich and some were anti-Semites. But all I know is he lived in the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage. If no citation for the link of La Quinta resort a "safe haven" for Italians or Jews is provided, it's going to be deleted (it has already) and please send the ancestry data from the U.S. Census. Otherwise it's called stereotyping other than local knowledge. --Mike D 26 04:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I didn't remove the Monaco controversy, but I can say that it might have been removed since it does not pertain to La Quinta since the girl's school isn't in the city. Matthew Peters 03:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I made the original request for a citation. I decided to solve it myself, and with a little research, I've found Census data that disproves certain bits of Demographic information previously provided. [] Matthew Peters 09:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Whoever did the post was telling the way it is 50 years ago. I've sense the community's demography and culture changed alot since then, but wasn't meant to appear anti-Semitic or bigoted. Miami, Beverly Hills and the Catskills, New York was a butt of ethnic jokes in the time after WWII, because retired Americans of immigrant descent had homes, bought land acreage and owned 3-star hotels. It's true the 2nd generation American upper-class at the time cofounded the resorts (Las Vegas gained fame as a gambling hub through Bugsy Siegel and the mafia) we know of today. Today, Beverly Hills isn't mostly "Jewish" where 20% of residents are Arab, Iranian and Armenian descent (see California-in demographics for stats). The Miami area is now told by Cuban/Latino jokes after post-Castro refugees (Cuban Americans) became the majority of its' population. And for the Catskills, I thought they are homes of the very wealthy, such as descendants of the Dutch of upstate New York: the Vanderbilts, Roosevelts and Rockefellers. Back to the subject, La Quinta is mainly affluent and portrayed as a "yuppie" gated exo-suburb community. Did the census data suggest most of La Quinta's residents earn over $100,000 a year? Because it looked like lots of them live and play in golf clubs don't mean they're most of La Quinta's residents. Reply on that.- Mike D. + 207.200.116.131 20:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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