They just wanted to build a bike park. Their surprise mission? Restoring Santa’s Village
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They just wanted to build a bike park. Their surprise mission? Restoring Santa’s Village

LA Times  

Santa’s Village had become a ghost town, closed for nearly two decades. We’re running this thing at its theoretical level,” says Bill Johnson, 57, who owns the park, now christened Skypark at Santa’s Village, with his wife, Michelle, 51. “It was kind of like a Tim Burton Christmas without the Gothic influence,” says Scott Rogers, a game designer and former Walt Disney Imagineer, describing the approachable weirdness of Santa’s Village. “It wasn’t our idea to bring back Santa’s Village as much as it was the Southern California market,” Bill says. I want everything to feel authentic.” Kathie Ferkin first visited Santa’s Village in 1955 and recently returned to the park.

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