We're still Santa Claus Land to some

Wow.

Whoever wrote this headline not only took a time-machine ride back to the 1960s ... they also physically moved the park to the south and west! (In that case, shouldn't it be Evansville Land?)

You may notice the article was written by Mrs. Koch's pictorial history book co-author. Poor Jane is beside herself. First her oldest heads off to college, and now this.

My absolute favorite Santa Claus Land headline was back in 1992, when the park had been Holiday World for an entire decade.

It was my first season with the park and we'd had great fun with the bungee show and rides we offered. It was located where the high-dive show used to be (and still exists). If you look around behind the high-dive seating, you can still see the footers that were put in for the bungee tower.

The plan was always to offer bungee jumping for a single season. Then back to the high-dive show.

But when, toward the season's end, a newspaper article ran about the bungee show, the big hook was that we were not going to continue it in 1994.

Never planned to.

Told you.

But it was more exciting to write about the "big decision," apparently.

The wire service picked up the story and it ran all over the place.

My budget nearly exploded as the clipping service mailed us boxes and boxes of clips.

The headlines varied wildly as those are written by someone on each paper's staff. But the one I'll never forget, for its absurdity, was:

Santa Claus Land Rids Self of Bungee Nightmare

Now that's creative writing!