The Pink Elephant

The Diamond Inn Motel was originally built in 1940 as the Desert Isle Motel and may be one of the oldest buildings still standing on the Strip (when you consider how many hotels and casinos have been constantly torn down and rebuilt on the Strip). The pink elephant was actually a Disney World resident which arrived at the hotel during the 1950s where it quickly became kinda sorta the hotel's mascot. It is said that the pink pachyderm had a trumpeting sound mechanism that the county ordered to be removed because the trumpeting was causing accidents on the boulevard in front of the elephant.