Santa’s Village still exists. Here in New Hampshire, we see ads for it on our local television station throughout the summer. In this photo, we are posing in front of a fiberglass whale. What the whale’s connection was to Santa, I’m not sure, but fiberglass sculptures provided photo ops and were kind of “a thing” back then. I’m sure Santa’s Village today has more attractions and better rides than it did in 1966, but even then, our annual visit was something we looked forward to. We would usually go when we were in New Hampshire anyway, vacationing at Geneva Point Camp on Lake Winnipesaukee. We would pick a day when the weather was iffy, and swimming and canoeing were off the table. You can see the nod to inclement weather in the umbrellas my sisters and I are carrying. And of course there was plaid, alway more plaid. We wore it all the time.
Santa’s Village, 1966
