Happy International Women’s Day! Today, I’m thinking back to the matriarchs of each generation. My great-grandmother, Clarice Koch, moved to quiet Santa Claus, Indiana in 1945 to help Louis J….
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Equal Parts Holiday World and Santa Claus Land
Today is our 76th Birthday! In finding the words to share about today, I started diving into all the things I’ve learned since we began working on our commemorative book:…
Read More »Santa Claus Land Sunday – 1946 Newspaper Articles
Happy Fourth of July! In addition to celebrating our nation’s independence today, we’re kicking off Santa Claus Land Sundays. From now until our 75th Birthday on August 3, we’ll do…
Read More »The hunt for clues is on
If you’re a Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari super-fan, you’ll remember what today is. It’s the five year anniversary of our announcement of Thunderbird. I can’t believe it’s been five…
Read More »Founder’s Day
Today is the birthdate of Louis J. Koch. Let’s declare it to be Founder’s Day! Did you know that Holiday World started out as a retirement project? It was back…
Read More »That “Harper Valley PTA” Girl!
What in the world do Jeannie C. Riley and the song Harper Valley PTA have to do with Holiday World? The Grammy Award winner’s connection is with Santa Claus Land, actually; she performed…
Read More »Splashin’ Safari surprised us all!
It’s Splashin’ Safari’s birthday! Our water park opened on May 29, 1993. It was much smaller back then. In fact, our news release announced it would be a five-year project,…
Read More »The day CBS News came to town
What fun it is to revisit our past – with oh so many wonderful stories to tell from our 73 years! This includes a visit from CBS News! Here’s a share…
Read More »#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 »#FlashbackFriday: 1955 Chrysler Commercial
It’s #FlashbackFriday again and we found an amazing piece of Santa Claus Land history to share with you. This is the “Chrysler TV Caravan,” with a commercial touting their 1955…
Read More »#FlashbackFriday to 1984
Does anyone scrapbook the old-fashioned way any more? It used to be such a thing that the noun became a verb. Nowadays, the digital form of scrapbooking is so handy,…
Read More »Our animated history
Here’s a fun video created as part of Indiana’s bicentennial celebration:
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