This section examines and celebrates the ways Christmas still expresses itself outside of home and church (the public arena).
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Original art for my 2005 Cristmas card. Scott Smith, Rucus Studio. Merry Christmas!
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - reindeer stable
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - polar express
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - nativity scene
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - elf search and rescue tries to pry Santa out of a chimney and repair his sleigh
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - community giving tree - this event is used to raise money for the community food bank, toys for tots, and other charities
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - children popping soap bubbles at the clock shop
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - clock shop
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - community sponsored Christmas trees
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - choir, one of over 60 animated and musical exhibits
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - candy cane factory
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - bears at work
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose - athletic club sponsored tree
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Christmas in the Park, San Jose, CA began in 1950 as a private Christmas display and now exists as a non-profit corporation with trees and displays sponsored by individuals, community groups, and merchants
Entered: Monday 28th of November 2005 11:52:30 AM
Ho Ho Ho from Santa's Village!!!
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Santa's Village--an "M and M" colored attraction in the Santa Cruz Mtns. we would pass by on our way to the beach in Santa Cruz and actually went to once in 1965 for a birthday party. I remember giant mushroom stools and kiddie cars we drove. The first Santa there was Carl Hansen from Denmark. A puppet thetare was set up there by Angela Combs Canright, who hailed from my hometown of Chico. Known as "The Puppet Lady," Angela had a long interest in puppet thetare and established theatres not only at Santa's Village but at Happy Hollow and Frontier Village in San Jose. Also in residence (they were allowed to live in the Landreth Errington home until their deaths in the early 1970's)were Swedish landscape gardeners Svea Linquist and Olga Olson. There they planted camomile for ground cover and a birch sapling that Svea smuggled into the U.S. from Sweden under her coat. They created a rock garden in the front yard. Developer Noorudin Billawalla purchased the Santa's Village property in 1966 and continued to run it for ten years, when Billawalla changed the park's name to "The Village" and promoted an Arts and Crafts fair in 1978. The gates were closed in 1979, suffering from competition from the beach, boardwalk and rainy December weather. The man in the suit in the black and white picture George, Liberace's brother. Thanks for this wonderful site, Larry!
Your friend, Veno Anderson
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Christmas card with nativity scene by Larry Schmidt
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Kitty Claus painting by Carl Linkhart
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Painting for a Christmas card by Carl Linkhart