We (I) recently discovered from IAAPA historian Jim Futrell (shameless plug listen to our interview with him here) that Santa Claus Land kind of has two opening days, so we…
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Posts Tagged: Bill Koch
#ThrowbackThursday: Ski Show
Did you know we used to have a water-ski show? It was a long time ago. Sixty years, actually. It was called the Willie Bartley Water Ski Show and was…
Read More »Podcast: The one with the Retiree
Mike Johannes has certainly never been thought of as a retiring sort of person. But after 26 years with us, it seems our Director of Sales is heading off to make…
Read More »Podcast: Making Merry
It’s the aftermath of announcing Santa’s Merry Marketplace and our podsquad is still a bit giddy for today’s podcast episode: We talk a lot about producing the announcement video…
Read More »Podcast: Promises Kept
I won’t ruin the surprise, but a promise made long ago (and repeatedly) was finally kept this morning … The Golden Ticket Awards were held last weekend in Connecticut. Leah…
Read More »Podcast: Hire & Hire
The #PodSquad is back, with a Firecracker update, the story of Kitty Claws and her tutu, and a visit from HR: Here’s the tweet with our first IT Intern, Andy…
Read More »Podcast: December dreams
It’s been a full month since the #PodSquad assembled, so we kicked off December with memories of Thanksgiving, a mannequin video, and plans for 2017: Here’s the AtlasObscura article about our…
Read More »Podcast #007: May Flowers
It’s podcast time again! Here are a few teasers … A tasty surprise. A promo code. A plant with a Halloween theme: Ride names from our Santa Claus Land days:…
Read More »Remembering December 7
It has been many years since the bombing of Pearl Harbor – the attack that pulled the United States into World War II. A young Navy Reserve officer from Santa…
Read More »A Halloween tale
Back in 1994, it was such a thrill to take part in naming our first big roller coaster. We knew it was going to be built in our Halloween section,…
Read More »“The moose at the front gate should have told you…”
You might think that once the front gates close at the end of the season, we don’t see another Guest until the next summer. Taking a walk through the (mostly)…
Read More »Remembering Bill Koch
Ten years ago today, we said good-bye to a wonderful man. Bill Koch devoted his life to developing Santa Claus Land and the town of Santa Claus. Bill and Pat…
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