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DAYTONA BEACH On the sidewalks, in the hotels, restaurants and grocery stores, the cheerleaders are seemingly everywhere this week at the World’s Most Famous Beach.
Thousands of students on cheerleading teams and dance units representing roughly 140 colleges and universities nationwide are in Daytona Beach to compete in the College Cheer and Dance National Championship sponsored by the National Cheerleaders Association and the National Dance Alliance.
The five-day event runs through Sunday at the Daytona Beach Bandshell and the Ocean Center.
It’s a milestone edition of the long-running competition, which is marking both the 40th anniversary of the event itself and its 25th year in Daytona Beach.
When the Naked Cowboy’s arrest at this year’s Bike Week generated national headlines, it also jump-started interest in one of the many spin-off products bearing the veteran street performer’s likeness.
Naked Cowboy bobbleheads now compete for attention with pop culture icons such as the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, an assortment of professional sports franchises and politicians on the website of Kollectico, a collectible production and distribution company based in Long Island, New York.
“We’ve started to see a little uptick in sales,” Andrew Hazen, the company’s founder and CEO, said of the Naked Cowboy bobblehead that depicts the New York City-based undie-clad busker and his red, white and blue guitar next to a street sign for Times Square and Broadway.
DAYTONA BEACH None of the arriving passengers in line with reservations at the rental car counters at Daytona Beach International Airport on Friday was worried about leaving without a vehicle, but the shortage of rental cars unfolding nationally is still having a ripple effect in Volusia County.
“My wife reserved this one two months ago, but the prices are outrageous now,” said Mark Palmer, 62, of Sturbridge, Mass., his keys and paperwork in hand from Hertz. “We rented a small SUV for $400 for three days. We looked at something bigger, a Chevy Tahoe, but they wanted $800 (for the same amount of time).”