Letters to Santa

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In the 1910s, the New York City Post Office was having trouble delivering children's letters addressed to Santa Claus. So every Christmas, thousands of letters went unanswered. Then in 1913, an charming businessman named John Duval Gluck, Jr. started a new charity, “The Santa Claus Association" to fix this problem. The organization was a group of volunteers who responded to children’s letters, and sent the neediest ones to affluent Manhattanites who would provide gifts. The charity became an immediate hit, and garnered attention from celebrities and politicians alike. That is, until the charity became a real money maker and Gluck's ambitions got the best of him. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	It's a chilly December in New York City just before Christmas.
0:42.0	A light snowfall dust the city streets in the year is 1911.
0:50.0	We've got model tees and horse-drawn carriages leaving tracks in the snow as they drive past newly built skyscrapers.
0:59.0	Men in suits are hustling to work and women in long skirts and giant hats are pushing strollers.
1:05.0	You also got the young boys and page boy hats who are passing out newspapers.
1:10.0	Inside apartments, children are writing letters to Santa.
1:13.0	Here's a letter from Little Albert.
1:16.0	Dear Santa Claus, won't you please bring my brother Jack Georgie and Archie something for Christmas?
1:23.0	As Mom says, she's afraid Santa Claus won't be here this Christmas.
1:28.0	As my Papa has been out of work for a long time and just got a job on the new subway in Brooklyn.
1:36.0	Christmas is a tough time for a lot of families.
1:39.0	Kids hopeful that Santa might stop by their homes started writing letters to him in the North Pole.
1:45.0	And putting them in the mail.
1:47.0	But at the time, the post office wasn't able to deliver letters all the way to the North Pole.
1:54.0	So, the letters started to pile up every year around the holidays.
1:59.0	And the post office had a rule about letters that they couldn't send.
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