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Steve Daniels, a worker at Santa’s Forest, a Christmas tree lot behind Hills Department Store in South Park Shopping Center, walked among the 2,700 Scotch pines and other evergreens looking for a tree to put on display in late November 1987. Photo by David Perry | Staff