Santa Claus is a desert ghost town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It lies along Highway 93 between Kingman, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada. It dates back to the 1930s when a developer thought a North Pole theme would get travelers to stop. This real place appears in a fictional short story by famed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein called Cliff And The Calories (1950 Teens Institute Inc.), and was reprinted in his 1980s book Expanded Universe (Ace Science Fiction). He describes a diet-shattering gourmet feast served by Mrs. Claus, in reality Mrs. Douglas, who apparently ran the place in the 1940s. By the 1970s, it had become a fast food joint and somewhere before the 1990s it had shut down and disappeared from printed maps.
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Beaver Dam | Littlefield | Meadview | Nothing | Oatman | Santa Claus | Topock | Wikieup | Wolf Hole |
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