REHOBOTH
BEACH HISTORY
OLD
FOLKS MEMORIES
JIMMY
“SANTA CLAUS” MOORE
TRAVELERS
RESTAURANT
Tuesday,
December 26, 1950, Wilmington News Journal
James
G. Moore, known around Christmas as Jimmy “Santa Claus”
Moore
at his Rehoboth Avenue Traverlers restaurant by everyone, and
wherever
his good humor accompanied him.
The
towns little children marveled by rotund form in his red,
fur
trimmed
suit knew him as Old Kris.
Older
folks say he is a good Santa, he talks, walks and acts just like
the
real thing. Every year he was with the Rehoboth Kiwanis on their
visit
to the Stockley Colony annual Christmas party.
Jimmy
was loveable, open, honest and outgoing,
Jimmy
Moore died three days before Christmas 1950, while Christmas
shopping
for gifts for friends and employees .
Abstract:
Tuesday, December 26 1950 Wilmington News Journal
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