Happy Holidays!
Sun photographer Dick Childress caught a sleighless Santa on North Ave back in the late 1970s. Meanwhile, we're awed by Childress' telephoto lens' ability to compress North Ave to almost unrecognizable proportions.
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PP177-1028. Untitled. [Santa on motorcycle] Photograph by Richard Childress, c. late 1970s. Childress Photograph Collection, MdHS.