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Santa Claus, ArizonaSanta Claus, Arizona is a desert ghost town 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 Heinlein (Stranger In A Strange Land, etc.), 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 1940's. By the 1970's, it had become a fast food joint and somewhere before the 1990s it was dropped from printed maps and shut down.
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