Originally Posted By doombuggy While not the SV many of us remember it's nice to know it's coming back in some way. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://abc7.com/entertainment/santas-village-to-reopen-this-year-as-outdoor-adventure-park/552637/">http://abc7.com/entertainment/.../552637/</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt WHAT?? I remember this place when I was a kid. It was kind of small, run down, and tired, but what did I know back then? Also gone, but not forgotten, is this place: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.frontiervillage.net/">http://www.frontiervillage.net/</a>
Originally Posted By doombuggy Never heard of that place but looks like it was a cute little tourist thing. My folks stopped taking us to SV when they raised prices, it was getting run down and too far out of the way.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Never went there, even though my family went to Lake Arrowhead and/or Big Bear quite a few times. It must have seemed really rinky-dink to my parents or something. I do remember it being there, though. Must have somehow seemed rinky dink to my sibs and I too, as we never lobbied to go there. Never went to Frontier Village either, though as SoCal'ers, that's not a big shock. We did go to Marineland (RIP), Busch Gardens in Van Nuys (RIP), Movieland Wax Museum (RIP), and probably my favorite little oddity, Buena Park's own Japanese Village and Deer Park. What I remember most was the really good tiger show they had. I think they only had it towards the end of their run (the place was only open 8 years), because I don't remember it on our first visit(s) and only later on. Probably the best photograph I ever took was on my little instamatic that I happened to time JUST right (which, as a photographer, I rarely do) to catch the tiger exactly in the middle of jumping through the ring of fire. They also had a dolphin/sea lion show, a Hokkaido bear show, a karate show (pretty cool), and you could even hire a woman to dive down in this pool and retrieve a cultured oyster for you, which they guaranteed would have a pearl. And, of course, the large deer feeding area, and koi feeding area (bring your quarters for the animal feeding machines).
