It’s Holiday season, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it here at the Anacostia Community Museum than remembering our very own Santa – Wee Wee (Milton Jones) from the 1970s and 80s.  Back in the “old days of the 1970s,” we had our own Santa Claus in the neighborhood of Anacostia.  Santa came to see the children and bring them toys and goodies by way of parade car, in the jitney bus, walking, and even by helicopter.

Wee Wee was the Santa Claus for the museum for over ten years. He was a member of the Smithsonian Anacostia Neighborhood Museum’s Exhibition Department, and also ran the gift shop at the museum.  The neighborhood had a Christmas parade, featuring our neighborhood Santa.  The streets were lined with people all the way down Martin Luther King Jr., Ave. (then Nichols Avenue) and children and parents were lined up at the Anacostia Museum door to go talk to Santa about their Christmas wishes and receive a toy.