Santa's Village reminds me of Storyland in Glen.
All across America there were hundreds of places that sprang up in the 40s and 50s to take advantage of people traveling by car. Tiny amusement parks, odd buildings and quirky little museums. PBS has had a couple of good documentaries about them over the years.
http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/amusement/index.php
http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/unusual/index.php
Most of them disappeared when the interstate highways took over but in New England there are a fair amount of them still left and thriving after all these years.
Santa's Village, Storyland and Clark's are some great examples of time gone by. Many, many years ago Storyland employees used to go through the parking lot and put little signs on all the car bumpers with a wire twist. It was a amazing how many cars you would see driving all over the state with those things on, until they blew off eventually.