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- ↑ Display advert, Show Time II drive-in, Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Friday 29 August 1975, Volume 30, Number 175, page 5B.
- ↑ Scott, Vernon, "Lindsay Bloom Concedes Flaunting Charms Expected", United Press International, Dateline: Hollywood, Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, November 6, 1975, Volume 30, Number 234, page 6B.
- ↑ The Dukes Of Hazzard
