This whole thing started a decade ago in 2004 when five of us decided to don some Santa outfits and do a bar crawl. We gathered together at the Adam’s Apple where we took this great picture (from left to right: Jeff Deitrich, Larry Fall, Johnny Mateo, Kevin Hodge, Brian Allen). From there we headed to Hooter’s at the far east end of for the official start of our bar tour, gradually working our way westward. Along the way, we made a few friends.
Everywhere we went we got a universal response of “What a great idea. If you do it again, we want in.”
So be it – the Santa Crawl was born.
That’s how the Santa Crawl get started. We’ve grown from five to over five hundred, become too large for any one bar, taken over downtown State College for one night, tied ourselves to SantaCon, and leveraged it all for a good cause.
Come join us in the merriment this year.
