Did you know we haven’t always been called Holiday World? When we opened on August 3, 1946, we were called Santa Claus Land. And guess who was hard at work?…
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I nearly had a heart attack when I came across this old Santa Claus Land photo. It was in a folder marked "children's roller coaster." But those boys in the…
Read More »“I’ll be a lady of leisure”
Today, our staff bid a fond farewell to this sweet face: After many, many years of helping to make Santa Claus Land and then Holiday World & Splashin‘ Safari an…
Read More »Please remove your sunglasses before riding, sir…
If you follow us on Twitter, you know I'm a member of the IAAPA Communications Committee. Chair, actually, as of this week. We had our first teleconference yesterday afternoon…
Read More »Now … and then
Well, actually, then and way back then. These photos have been in my "HoliBlog photos" folder since last summer. Oops. What a sweet family photo, taken in August. Siblings who…
Read More »You betcha!
It didn't take too long for our readers to recognize Baked Alaska. Here, as promised, is a peek at one of the very early menus from The Christmas Room at…
Read More »Christmas dining, long ago
Sylvia is plowing through all our old photos as she doggedly, determinedly works on getting our archives organized. She makes discoveries. Every so often I hear her laugh. It’s a…
Read More »Any clues to this Claus?
This is the new background photo for our Twitter page. I guess I watched too many episodes of Monk this weekend. I'd love to figure out what year this was…
Read More »Collect much?
We occasionally hear from folks who collect Santa Claus Land memorabilia. Mrs. Koch is always interested to find out what's out there, and has even been known to place a…
Read More »Here it comes
There is a sigh of relief around here as we complete our last day of "daily" operations. We're still open weekends, of course, but not Monday through Friday (with the…
Read More »Ben there, done that
This is Ben: This little fellow, from Berea, Kentucky, just enjoyed his first visit to Holiday World. His mom, Missy, was just a little bit older than Ben when she…
Read More »Photo i.d.
It's always a delight when someone emails an old photo asking if it was taken at Holiday World. …or, in this case, Santa Claus Land: Indeed, this ride was in…
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