Elizabethtown transforms into 1950s Columbia for the holidays
LOOK DELICIOUS TOO. AWESOME. YEAH. WELL, THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, I WILL TELL YOU, IT’S A PIECE OF NOSTALGIA THAT IS RIGHT HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. YEAH, FROM BUILDINGS, DECORATIONS TO LIGHTS, TREES AND STORES, A SECTION OF ELIZABETHTOWN TRANSFORMS INTO A REPLICA OF COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, FROM THE 1950S. YEAH. SO COOL. AND WE SENT NEWS 8 PHOTOGRAPHER LOGAN BIEGEL OUT TO THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS CENTER AHEAD OF THE HOLIDAY. YOU’RE SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS CENTER, WHICH ONCE WAS DOWN IN LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA. WE’VE NOW MOVED IT HERE AND IT’S AMAZING THAT WE’VE OPENED IT. IT’S 18,000FT OF CHRISTMAS FROM AROUND PENNSYLVANIA AND AROUND THE WORLD. WE STARTED IN 2019 WITH THE BARE SPACE AND THEN THROUGH 2020 INTO EARLY 21, WE CREATED WHAT THE BASICS OF WHAT YOU SEE NOW. WE’RE CONSTANTLY REMINISCING ABOUT THINGS THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER AND CHRISTMAS IN HIS HOUSE AND CHRISTMAS IN MY HOUSE, SO IT WAS KIND OF NEAT, SOMETHING TO SEE, YOU KNOW, COME OUT AND SEE THINGS AS WE REMEMBER THEM AND EVEN BEFORE WE REMEMBER, IT BRINGS OUT THE LITTLE BOY, THE LITTLE GIRL IN EVERY HUMAN HEART. IT’S AMAZING AS PEOPLE WALK THROUGH HERE FROM WE’VE GOTTEN THEM FROM AS FAR AS CALIFORNIA. WE WORK ALL YEAR TOILING AT TRYING TO IMPROVE THINGS, AND THE REWARD IS SMILING PEOPLE. AND WHEN THEY LEAVE GOING, OH, YOU MADE MY DAY, OR YOU MADE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL THIS YEAR BECAUSE THIS IS OUR FIRST TIME HERE. I SEE THAT JOY AND THAT ALL AND THAT WONDER, THAT MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME. WHEN I SEE LITTLE CHILDREN LIGHT UP AND GO, WOW,
Elizabethtown transforms into 1950s Columbia for the holidays
Updated: 6:13 PM EST Dec 22, 2025
This holiday season, a section of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, has been transformed into a replica of Columbia, Pennsylvania, from the 1950s.The replica featured buildings, decorations, lights, trees, and stores.News 8 photographer Logan Beegle visited the National Christmas Center ahead of the holiday.You can view the whole story in the video player above.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. —
This holiday season, a section of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, has been transformed into a replica of Columbia, Pennsylvania, from the 1950s.
The replica featured buildings, decorations, lights, trees, and stores.
News 8 photographer Logan Beegle visited the National Christmas Center ahead of the holiday.
You can view the whole story in the video player above.