Harold Gale Santa Claus Vintage Store Display Mechanical Animated Electrical

  

Harold Gale Santa Claus Vintage Store Display. From the 60s, this gorgeous 30 Santa apparently graced Mendenhall's in Richfield, Utah according to the tag glued to its base. The head is supposed to move back and forth, and it did when my husband opened him up to fix the motor. However, the hook which hooked the head to the motorized internal arm came undone as I was making the gyrations needed to put him back together. I'm not willing to take him apart again to refix it because his tummy, which is a 60 year old paper mache globe which covers the motor, is VERY fragile and I had to hot glue it in several places where it was tearing. You can see a video of it in motion if you search "Harold Gale animated store display Santa Claus" on YouTube. Please disregard my messy workroom in the video and pictures. As my favorite tshirt says, you call it hoarding... I call it inventory management.