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The following year, the National Christmas Tree was lit with blue lights and encircled with strings of red and white lights, and decorated with gold balls. [136] The tree-topper that year was not a star but a 4-foot (1.2 m) tall gold spire with a base of golden stars. [131]
The tradition of lighting a colossal Christmas tree at New York City’s Rockefeller Center dates back to 1931 when workers at the center pooled their money to buy a 20-foot balsam fir they ...
The invention of light bulbs ushered in a new, safer era in Christmas tree lighting. In 1882, a couple of years after Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb, Edward Johnson, a friend of Edison's ...
The following year, a dynamo located in the cellar of his home on East 36th Street was used to supply the power for the 120 lights on his Christmas tree, which revolved and displayed different combinations of colored lights using a special mechanism he had patented. [11] Edward H. Johnson became known as the Father of Electric Christmas Tree ...
Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree with lights in London, England. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide.
U.S. President Joe Biden yells out to the press while departing the 102nd National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Ellipse on Dec. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
According to TIME Magazine, 1931 was the first year that this special location displayed a Christmas tree, when a 20-ft.-tall balsam was put up on Christmas Eve by the construction workers who ...
In 2002, a bill was introduced in the California Senate to rename the State Holiday Tree the California State Christmas Tree; [139] while this measure did not pass, at the official lighting of the tree on 4 December 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger referred to the tree as a Christmas tree in his remarks and in the press release ...