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Left: Weinermobile Arrives; Center: Lynda recreates her WM publicity photo from 1992; Right: Linda Davey w team
For 12 months, Lynda and her partner traveled across the Lynda’s success as a Hotdogger earned her a second year
United States, including Hawaii, and Canada attending advising new recruits after which she and a school teacher
events like Mardi Gras, the Kentucky Derby and the Super friend backpacked around Europe for a final fling. While
Bowl, promoting the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile and giving anticipating that she would finally have to settle down in that
out wiener whistles and other Wienermobila. In Los Angeles, 9 to 5 desk job, Lynda reconnected with a Mizzou teacher in
Lynda grimaced through the embarrassment of being taken in Europe who appreciated her skills as well as her wanderlust,
by practical joker Leslie Nielsen and his whoopie cushion. At and recommended her for a journalism job with Cunard
the Indie 500, Lynda cheered on Al Unser Jr. as he plowed onboard the Royal Viking Sun luxury cruise ship.
down the track in her Weinermobile, drag racing against two After three years with Cunard – during which time she met
local radio personalities in the other Weinermobile.
fellow crew member Tim Davey, a New Zealander who
Holidays inspired elaborate Weinermobile decorations. You would become her husband, now of 25 years - Lynda
think decorating a tree is a big deal? Try decorating the rear transferred shoreside and eventually settled in our own
end of a huge hot dog to look like a jack-o-lantern, dressing Coral Ridge Country Club Estates. Would she do it all again?
up as Count Von Ketchup and then driving around to deliver In a heartbeat! Would she recommend the experience to
Meals on Wheels. That’s how you do Halloween Oscar Mayer new college grads? Absolutely! A Hotdogger learns and
style. Whether attending small community gatherings or large grows through a once in a lifetime experience. The fun is
national events Lynda put her PR and communications skills to a bonus.
work with everyone she met from movie stars to children.

Left: Inside WM w Drivers & former HotDogger gent who lives in Fort Lauderdale; Center: Lynda w neighbors Sienna & Henry Tauber; Right: TheFriedlands

Left: Follow at #KeepitOscar; Center: Lynda w WM drivers; Right: Lynda wWM
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