Life within the city called Santa Claus (Photo)

The southwest corner of Indiana is a normal American country with normal American names. Evansville, Jasper, Bunville, Dale. And then on the street, a street sign that looks like a Christmas star. Santa Claus, 4 miles away, broadcast Top Channel. When you get to town there's a 10-foot Santa statue to welcome [...]
When you get to town there's a 10-foot Santa statue that welcomes you into town.
The main road is called Christmas Avenue, the town called Christmas Lake Village, where 2,500 people live.
While the other three main streets have the names of three smart people -- Melchior, Balthazar and Kaspar.
And the other names have Rudolph deer names, and one street is called simply “Fire fight” (Cheestnut by the Fire).
Santa Claus, Indiana, has Christmas in 365 days of the year, but are its residents bored of it? No, I've been here 27 years, and that's part of us says Michael Johannes, from Melchior Drive.




















