Cadillac had chosen the name five years before the club's founding in an internal competition. Local automotive history indicates that designer Raymond Loewy penned the Studebaker Avanti in his Palm Springs home. Especially since the 1950s, Palm Springs and nearby golf clubs are hailed as the "playground of celebrities". However it is said that celebrities travel or reside in the Palm Springs area inlesser numbers as compared to yesteryear, but the area's "star power" made a comeback in the 2000s. Ball and Arnaz helped finance construction of the Indian Wells Country Club. Founded in 1956 with their winter residence on DesiLu Court, Indian Wells became a major factor in "down valley" growth in the 1970s and 1980s. A mostly gated community, Indian Wells has one of the highest per capita income of any small town in the United States, while nearby Coachella, a short distance southeast on State Route 111 is the third poorest city of the 10,000–50,000 population range in the nation, though that is rapidly changing as the area develops. A memorial to Eisenhower can be found on the front lawn of Indian Wells City Hall, also features the local veterans memorial plaque to represent the community's 800 veterans, a high number of war veterans per ratio of its predominantly senior citizen population. Coachella has the Vietnam War veterans' memorial to represent their community's high representation of armed forces volunteers, a large percentage had Spanish surnames since the city's population are over 90 percent Latino. Many other celebrities, past and present, have called the area home such as actor Paul Burke. Among those who grew up in the area: Vanessa Marcil is a La Quinta native and attended Indio High School. Suzanne Somers spent a part of her childhood in Cathedral City and attended Palm Springs High School. Billy Steinberg grew up in Palm Springs and worked at the Dave Freedman Grape Farm in Thermal. Alison Lohman is a native of Palm Springs and grew up in Palm Desert. Tyler Hilton is also a native of Palm Springs and graduated from La Quinta High School. Hilton performed a concert in the school theatre in 2006. Cameron Crowe grew up in a rural home near Indio. Rich Newey grew up in Bermuda Dunes. Alan O'Day grew up in Coachella. Aubrey O'Day was a 2001 graduate of La Quinta High School. Josh Homme attended Palm Desert High School. Tony Reagins,