A look at some of the earlier years of Ogden's Christmas Village.
Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970Christmas parade in the 1960s
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Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970Santa and his reindeer, Christmas parade in the 1970s
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Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970
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Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970(L to R) Joannie Herdti, Wallace Eubank, and Shawn Ferrin mail their letters to Santa, 1962
Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970
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Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970
Weber State University, Stewart Library, Special Collections
Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970
Weber State University, Stewart Library, Special Collections
Monday Memories, Christmas Village, 1960-1970Santa’s house in Christmas Village, 1962
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Christmas Village missile tree 2Volunteers string lights from the top of a 70-foot-tall Minuteman missile to create a glowing "missile tree" in 1962, the first year of Christmas Village.
Maxine Green
Christmas village missile treeOgden's Christmas Village organizers found a way to disguise a 70-foot-tall Minuteman missile by turning into a "missile tree" in 1962, the first year of Christmas Village.
Courtesy Maxine Green