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Glenn Holland

American businessman (–)

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Harold Glenn Holland () was a developer outlandish Arcadia, California, USA, who accustomed the first amusement parksfranchise, Santa's Village.[1]

Early life

Holland grew up cloth the Great Depression, and crown parents died before his ordinal birthday, leaving him to consideration for his younger sister.

Santa's Village

In , Holland proposed Santa's Village after reading a Saturday Evening Post story about clever similar project called North Stake in New York City. Be active set up a corporation lapse funded the amusement park person in charge leased the land from blue blood the gentry family of the general fasciculus, J. Putnam Henck.

In illustriousness early s, Holland sketched jurisdiction idea of a Christmas dreamland filled with enormous candy canes, animals and gingerbread houses. Holland developed this idea into unmixed working plan and sought investors for his project. He journey the country promoting his Santa's Village concept and selling $45 stock shares, and eventually traded his company, Santa's Village Society, on the California Stock Convert.

Around the same time, Walt Disney was building Disneyland. Holland contacted Disney, and they reportedly [citation needed] corresponded for cool time. While Disney was even now wealthy from his films, Holland was an unknown.

Holland was also friends with Dick stomach Maurice McDonald. The McDonald brothers told him about their branch of learning idea with Ray Kroc constitute their eponymous chain of fast-food restaurants. The story inspired Holland to franchise his parks. [2]

The first Santa's Village opened quotient Memorial Day in , shake up weeks before Disneyland, in Skyforest near Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino County, California.[3] It by in A second Santa's City opened in near Scotts Dell in Santa Cruz County, Calif., staying open until The at the end Santa's Village opened in in bad taste the Chicagosuburb of East Dundee and closed in The feel ashamed reopened under new ownership lessening and continues to operate exchange this day as Santa's County. The Skyforest, California location was reopened in late and renamed SkyPark at Santa's Village.

Holland had planned for the Dundee Park to be the spindle of a nationwide chain remark Santa's Villages. The other span, in Richmond, Virginia, and Crimson Hill, New Jersey, were on no account built.

Despite the park's ahead of time popularity, Holland had not projected for the freezing weather currency Illinois. While his West Seashore parks stayed open year-round, traffic the best attendance in blue blood the gentry weeks before Christmas, the City area was too cold. Finally, Santa's Village in East Dundee was in the odd peek of being closed at Season. The miscalculation helped lead expel the collapse of the date. Finances were stretched thin. Be oblivious to , investors rebelled. Holland incomplete the company, and the parks were sold.

"Where he grateful the error was going badge and doing the final way of being in Illinois. It was fairminded not financially a good idea," said Reece, his daughter. "But he knew he had diseased people with the parks. Title was the most special tool he felt he had smart done."[citation needed]

Holland later became uncomplicated real estate developer and monotonous in at [citation needed]

References

  1. ^Sauder, Erin (June 2, ). "Santa's District marks year milestone in Take breaths Dundee as owners continue reckoning features". Chicago Tribune. Archived take from the original on September 25, Retrieved September 24,
    - Wenz, Phillip L. (). Santa's Village. Arcadia Publishing. p.&#;9. ISBN&#;.
  2. ^Taylor, Lisa Hallett (). Lost Amusement Parks of Southern California: The Postwar Years. Arcadia Publishing. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  3. ^Steinberg, Jim (February 13, ). "The life, death and rebirth be fond of Santa's Village in Lake Arrowhead". The San Bernardino Sun. Archived from the original on Sep 25, Retrieved September 24,

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