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Adolph Theodore Laudenberg (June 13, 1926 – June 26, 2015), known as The Santa Strangler, was an American serial killer who murdered three women in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles and one in San Francisco during the 1970s, and is the prime suspect for another two similar murders.
Santa Claus was an American medium clipper ship built in Boston by Donald McKay in 1854. In the course of her career, she made three voyages from the East Coast of the United States to San Francisco, California, the fastest of which was a comparatively swift 128-day passage in the winter of 1857–1858.
In San Francisco, 2014. SantaCon began in San Francisco in 1994, inspired by a Mother Jones article on the Danish activist theatre group Solvognen. In 1974, Solvognen gathered dozens of "Santas" in Copenhagen to hand out items from the shelves of a department store to customers as "presents" [7] before they were arrested. [8]
The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. The beloved special was adapted from the book of the same name by Phyllis McGinley.
Claus Spreckels Sugar Factory in Potrero Point in 1892. Adolph Claus J. Spreckels [notes 1] (July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908) was a Prussian Saxony-born major industrialist in both San Francisco, and Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican, and territorial periods of the islands' history.
Santa Claus holding his favorite cookie. Much to his wife's dismay, Santa's epic yearly dash around the world is fueled entirely on sugar, butter, flour, and milk.
The Santa Clause is a media franchise that consists of three American holiday family-comedy theatrical feature films starring Tim Allen, and one television series for Disney+. Based on an original story by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, the plot centers around Scott Calvin's transformation into Santa Claus, and his adventures thereafter.
The couple held the last Santa Clause Lane event in 2019. “The fun, the hobby,” Terry Toews says, “it became work.” Deb Toews says the community kind of mourned when Santa Claus Lane shut ...