Monday, December 24, 2007

Looking Even More Like Christmas--Santa Claus-- Flashback

Nancy Watkins went back to 1956 for a Dec. 8th picture of Santa Claus with a young Craig Parfitt of River Grove. It was taken at Midway Airport.

Of course, Santa is quite the busy old guy right now. A few facts:

1841-- first sighting of Santa Claus at a store--but he was supposed to be on the roof.

1890-- first department store Santa in Brockton, Massachusetts according to answerboy.com.

256.89 pounds-- average weight of a member of the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas.

8.3-- age at which average American gives up on Santa.

McNeil Nutritionals --(Makers of Lactaid)--company that announced in 2005 that Santa was lactose intolerant (Who'd a figgered that!!).

HOH OHO-- Santa's postal code at the North Pole according to the Canadian postal service.

NORAD-- who's tracking Santa right now.

1983-- the year Ralphie first wanted that thing to put his eye out.

24 hours-- how long TBS will be showing A Christmas Story.

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry..... The Old Coot

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