{"id":2205,"date":"2008-03-27T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2008-03-27T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:00:53","slug":"santas-village-alive-at-flower-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Santa&#8217;s Village Alive At Flower Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/santas-village.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/santas-village.jpg','popup','width=1043,height=663,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/santas-village-tm.jpg\" height=\"273\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Santa's Village\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pieces of the old Lake Arrowhead area <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedainfo.com\/santas_village_ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Santa&#8217;s Village<\/a><\/strong> have made their way to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theflowerfields.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad&#8217;s Flower Fields<\/a><\/strong> according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/entertainment\/stories\/PE_Ent_Daily_D_upfront28.23d2aed.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Press-Enterprise<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The old tourist landmark (which opened before Disneyland in 1955) closed in 1998, but a couple pieces have made their way to the beach.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/santaguad.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/santaguad.jpg','popup','width=400,height=283,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/santaguad-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Santaguad\" \/><\/a>The Flower Fields is another family business. Its CMO, <strong>Paul Ecke III<\/strong>, remembered Santa&#8217;s Village from childhood and bought many of its structures at auction after it closed. . . .According to a press release, he was bidding against comedian <strong>Paul Reubens<\/strong>, of &#8220;Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse&#8221; fame. . . . Ecke came away with the Gate House; the Crooked Treehouse; tiny picnic tables with seats made from pouring cement into five-gallon buckets; and many of the giant mushrooms that dotted the landscape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That explains it.<strong><\/p>\n<p>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/entertainment\/stories\/PE_Ent_Daily_D_upfront28.23d2aed.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Press-Enterprise<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieces of the old Lake Arrowhead area Santa&#8217;s Village have made their way to Carlsbad&#8217;s Flower Fields according to a story in The Press-Enterprise. The old tourist landmark (which opened before Disneyland in 1955) closed in 1998, but a couple pieces have made their way to the beach. The Flower Fields is another family business. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}