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    • Glenn Holland

    American businessman (1918–2002)

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    Harold Glenn Holland (1918-2002) was a developer from Arcadia, California, USA, who established the first amusement parksfranchise, Santa's Village.[1]

    Early life

    Holland grew up during the Great Depression, and his parents died before his eighteenth birthday, leaving him to care for his younger sister.

    Santa's Village

    In 1953, Holland proposed Santa's Village after reading a Saturday Evening Post story about a similar project called North Pole in New York City. He set up a corporation that funded the amusement park and leased the land from the family of the general contractor, J.

    Putnam Henck.

    In the early 1950s, Holland sketched his idea of a Christmas fairyland filled with enormous candy canes, animals and gingerbread ho