It had been a few years, so Matt and I went to check up on the Bakelite Santas and see how they are doing. The riddle mentioned the old Pepsi factory, and I knew exactly where they were. I didn’t even need the words “sandy shore” to solve this particular riddle. Because the old Pepsi factory building is a thing of beauty:
While it did have some Santas in it, it didn’t have the Bakelite Santas.
These Santas were portraits painted by Terence Healy for the first year. You can see that one is a daytime version, and the other a night-time version.
The Bakelite Santas were across the plaza.
I agree with the write-up of the Santas; that you can see them glow from far aways is one of the coolest things about them.
This was a fun place to have them displayed because there were windows on three sides. This made it easy to spend some time looking at them.
They were standing in rows with packing peanuts serving as the snow.
I neglected to get any shots from the front, alas.
