North Pole, Alaska, population 2,100, fully embraces its role as the home of Santa Claus. ... “It began the year the house opened, when air men from nearby Eielson Air Force Base would ask Con to ...

It started out as really just a little postcard that people would send out from North Pole, Alaska with the postmark obviously, and really has grown to this giant worldwide operation. So North ...

North Pole, Alaska, is a festive town where Christmas celebrations last all year with streets named after Santa, candy cane lamp posts, and the Santa Claus House. Visitors can meet Santa any time ...

Since 1954, volunteers in North Pole, Alaska, ... Santa Claus House, and the post office, where visitors can get a hand-stamped postmark on their postcards and packages if they ask for it. ...

After a unique dining experience at the Alaska Salmon Bake in Fairbanks and a quick stop at North Pole, Alaska — where we snapped photos with a Santa statue — it was time to head south on the ...

North Pole, Alaska, is a festive town where Christmas celebrations last all year with streets named after Santa, candy cane lamp posts, and the Santa Claus House. Visitors can meet Santa any time ...

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, ... where visitors can get a hand-stamped postmark on their postcards and ...

Charles Mason/Special to The OregonianNorth Pole's Santa Claus House has a giant St. Nick -- a landmark 43-foot-high Santa weighing 900 pounds -- greeting traffic on Alaska's Richardson Highway.