Santa Claus no more: Meet the mall Santa whose mall has died

For the better part of a decade, Dave Conley played Santa at the Wayne Hills Mall. He also sang and danced in musical shows that made the mall's Christmas productions unique among the faux North Poles at New Jersey malls. But in the mid-2000s, as malls across the country hit hard times, the lines to see Santa grew shorter before the Wayne Hills Mall eventually closed its doors for good.