Then: From the start (1957), this was a rare bird: a motor lodge with adobe walls in the middle of a redwood forest ... Then: The Candy Cane Motel opened in 1957, just two years after Disneyland ...

After walkingthrough the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops and then through the Lincoln Tunnel, Buddy the Elf hears the iconic "Pennies from Heaven ...