A Look Back
Split Personality The two men pictured above are one and the same: Tommy Warner/Santa Claus. The dual image photo taken in the 1980s by The Republic’s Stu Huffman captured the spirit of a man (Tommy Warner) who for two months each year assumed the role of Santa Claus. Arguably the best-known Santa in local history, the operator of a Columbus laundry was the real thing to thousands of youngsters who came face-to-face with him in hundreds of appearances he made throughout the city from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. He died in 1986. The Republic file photo. Details provided by Harry McCawley.
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