Desert Inn
Overview
- For the song of the same name by YelloYelloYello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their singles "The Race" and "Oh Yeah", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, as does most of their music....
, see hereStella (album)Stella is the fourth studio album by the Swiss band Yello. It peaked at #1 in Switzerland, #23 in Austria, #26 in Sweden and #92 in UK. Released in 1985, the album contains the track "Oh Yeah", which became famous after being featured in a variety of movies including Ferris Bueller's Day Off in...
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The Desert Inn was a Paradise, Nevada
Paradise, Nevada
Paradise is an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas metropolitan area in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census...
, hotel/casino that operated from April 24, 1950, to August 28, 2000. Designed by noted New York architect Jac Lessman, it was the fifth resort to open on the Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada; adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester...
. The property included an 18-hole golf course
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
. Locals nicknamed the resort "The D.I." or just "D.I."
The original name was Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn.
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