| Brockton, Mass. was the location of the first ever department store Santa Claus, at Edgar's Department Store. To celebrate this Brockton first, the Downtown Brockton Association staged a mass rally of people wearing Santa hats 2 years ago to get in the Guiness Book of World Records. And then some upstart town in Ireland took away the record last year. And so this year we gathered a week ahead of the annual parade for another rally to take back the record. There was dancing in the streets, free T-shirts thrown out into the crowd, raffled prizes and a visit from Santa. State Rep Mike Brady led a group of the city councillors in sing alongs with music blaring from the parking garage; high school principal Dr. Szach addressed the crowd to wind everone up and mayor Linda Balzotti read out a proclamation for the day. The new record now stands at 872! |
