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Disco Showdown in Oklahoma

Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1978

YOU CAN BUY six-packs of beer at the gas station, find a good poker game most any night and, some say, even play slot machines at the VFW Hall, but you can't dance in Henryetta, Oklahoma, because it's against the law.

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