Sal Appearances
- A Laffing Sal is seen gazing down on stars Audrey Totter and Edmond O'Brien in the 1953 film Man in the Dark, which was filmed on the Ocean Park Pier.
- A Laffing Sal is briefly featured in the 2001 film The Princess Diaries.
- Laffing Sal's soundtrack was used in Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, as noted in the liner notes to their "Holland 1945" single.
- A Laffing Sal appears twice in the 1950 film Woman on the Run during the closing scenes filmed at the Playland amusement park at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
- The 1954 Technicolor 3-D film Gorilla At Large features Laffing Sal and Laffing Sam at The Pike (then called Nu-Pike) in Long Beach, California.
- An episode of The Magician with Bill Bixby features the Laffing Sal at the Nu-Pike amusement park in Long Beach in the early 1970s.
- Sal was the subject of the cartoon strip "Zippy the Pinhead" on April 16, 1998.
- Sal appears in issue #5 of the DC Comics Series "Gotham City Sirens".
- Sal is mentioned several times in the song "Willie Mays Is Up At Bat" on the Chuck Prophet album Temple Beautiful (2012).
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