Peddler’s Village celebrates its 50th year in 2012, featuring a year-long party, special birthday festivities, new festivals and family events, contests, promotions and signature 50th anniversary merchandise.
More than 25 million guests have visited Peddler’s Village with family and friends in the past five decades. Guests, old and new, can look forward to appreciating treasured memories with vintage photo and memory contests, memorabilia displays, community reunions and celebrations throughout 2012. The month of June is the Birthday Celebration Month, filled with events including a Customer Appreciation event, a Family Reunion and the most spectacular Celebration of Freedom ever!
Earl Jamison started Peddler’s Village in June 1962 with 14 shops and the Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant on a 4-acre parcel of land known as “Antique Town” that included only a chicken barn, coops, and one antique shop. The Village now hosts 1.5 million guests annually, covers 42 acres and features 70 specialty shops, 6 restaurants, Giggleberry Fair family entertainment center, the Golden Plough Inn and 12 major festivals and events.
A major highlight of the year’s celebration will be the Peddler’s Village Rube Goldberg Challenge in honor of our 50th anniversary and founder Earl Jamison who loved Rube Goldberg machines. Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg, the Peddler’s Village Rube Goldberg Challenge invites anyone to design and build a machine that uses the most complex process to complete a simple task. The Rube Goldberg Challenge task for 2012 is to blow up and pop a non-inflated balloon in celebration of the Peddler’s Village 50th Anniversary. Rube Goldberg’s grandchildren and Philadelphia television personality Don Polec will make special guest appearances as celebrity judges of the competition!
Countless visitors over the decades have enjoyed the award-winning gardens of Peddler’s Village. In honor of our horticultural heritage, Peddler’s Village will launch the multi-year program 50 Trees for 50 Years. Please join us in 2012 as we begin the selection of 50 beautiful trees to enhance our Bucks County landscape.
The shops of Peddler’s Village will launch a 50 Weeks of Shopping campaign on January 1, highlighting their unique merchandise, services and locally made products with fun events and promotions that recognize the anniversary and thank our community of loyal shoppers.
For 50 years, families have chosen to spend their special moments at Peddler’s Village. If you were born in 1962, please join us in 2012 on your 50th birthday to celebrate your special day with a complimentary dinner in the Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant.
The full year’s schedule and more details on this landmark year will be posted on our website at http://www.peddlersvillage.com/promotions/50th-anniv/default.aspx.
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