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- ↑ "Linda Vista's Historic Role", San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2, 2009
- ↑ "Don't let Linda Vista fool you | San Diego Reader".
- ↑ Longstreth, Richard (1997). City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920–1950. MIT Press. pp. 291–298. ISBN 0262122006.
- ↑ "Linda Vista shopping center San Diego". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 April 1945. p. 8.
- ↑ "PCAD - Linda Vista Shopping Center, San Diego, CA".
