Has it really been more than 60 years since Louis J. Koch opened the world's first theme park? To help celebrate the 60th Anniversary Season of the park that debuted on August 3, 1946 as Santa Claus Land and is now known far and wide as Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, beloved park matriarch Pat Koch collaborated on this pictorial history book with professional writer Jane Ammeson of Stevensville, Michigan.