Author and Palm Springs Walk of Stars
With the sale of Touche, Haber wrote an anecdotal book called Bedtime Stories of the Ingleside Inn The book mainly focused on funny stories and misadventures involving the Ingleside Inn and Melvyn's. With a dedication by Arnold Schwarzenneger, the book sold approximately 10,000 copies. On October 24, 1996 (his 60th birthday) Haber received a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. The city of Palm Springs also decided to make the Ingleside Inn an official historic site in 1996, which commemorated Haber's second decade in the desert.
By the new millennium, Palm Springs was infused with new life when the younger generation went through a retro movement and yearned for Hollywood's authentic glamor days. As a result, the Ingleside Inn and Melvyn's has become the center of the nostalgia movement.
Haber's second book, Palm Springs a la Carte: The Colorful World of the Caviar Crowd at Their Favorite Desert Hideaway, co-authored with biographer Marshall Terrill, was published in December 2008.
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