Palm Springs

Hot Lucy

Location

On the northeast corner of Tahquitz Canyon Blvd and Palm Canyon Drive.

Directions

Park on the east side of Palm Canyon Drive, just before the traffic signal at Tahquitz Canyon Blvd and Palm Canyon Drive-- in front of Leed's Jewelers. Head south on Palm Canyon, walking past Leeds, until you are just short of the Tahquitz/Palm Canyon intersection. Meander a hundred or so feet to the left to the copper statue of Lucille Ball seated on a copper park bench.

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Discoverer Commentary

This is a seasonal attraction. Summer only. For best vantage point, view this attraction from an outdoor table at Starbucks on the southwest corner of Palm Canyon/Tahquitz (kitty corner). Palm Springs has summer temperatures that exceed 120 degrees-- during the winter the Lucille Ball statue provides a photo-op for the tourists, who sit and pose for pictures on the solid copper bench that solid copper Lucy is welded to. In the summer Lucille Ball becomes molten hot, the unsuspecting victims of red hot lucy clutching their scalded buttocks and legs, yowling in a genuine moment of absolute terror. Within the space of 20 minutes you will see at least 4 people get the hot-seat. It never fails.