Popular Christmas Wonderland Crosses The Delaware River…Again

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (CBS) - It's been a holiday tradition in the region for more than 50 years, and now Gaudio's Animated Wonderland is in a new South Jersey location after a brief stint in Philadelphia.

There are moving penguins around a waterfall, a mouse family decorating their Christmas tree and Santa and Mrs. Clause inside their North Pole home, just to name a few scenes.

Ralph Gaudio of the former Gaudio's and G Boys garden center stores has joined forces with McNaughton's Garden Center along Kresson Road in Cherry Hill.

Together they turned a large, green house into a Christmas extravaganza.

"When they come it's a nostalgic trip," says Gaudio. "They're saying mothers would come in, when I was a little girl I came with my father, grandmothers. Everyone has a memory and we make Christmas memories, that's what's nice with what we do."

There will be face painting and Gaudio says special guests too:

"Santa will be here and he's been seeing the kids in South Jersey for almost 40 years."

The holiday display was at a Christmas Factory Outlet in South Philadelphia for the past few years after G-Boys In Marlton closed in 2012. But now it's back in South Jersey -- this time in Cherry Hill -- where Gaudio says it will be the biggest one to date.

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