She was tapping into a holiday fad of the day: aluminum Christmas trees. Now 20 of these silver, pink, gold and green trees will be on display during the holidays in “‘Tis the Season” at the ...

Dozens of aluminum ... trees for the 1959 Christmas season, calling them Evergleams. The Manitowoc-based company produced more than 1 million trees in colors of silver, blue, pink, gold and green.

Yes, Virginia (as well as readers with other names), there is a Santa Claus. Also, from 1959 through most of the 1960s, a lot of people had aluminum Christmas trees in their living rooms.

Today, she is opening an exhibit at the Liriodendron featuring about 30 aluminum trees that are a kaleidoscope of colors, including green ... that she decorated with red lights, she says.

The streets of downtown Manitowoc, Wis., are dressed in their holiday best. Lampposts are draped in greenery, and ornaments hang like sparkly earrings. All along Eighth Street, the windows of ...

For about a decade, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, aluminum trees and ornaments ... wheel that flooded the reflective trees with red, green, blue and gold. The fear, back then was that ...

My mother brought home an aluminum ... tree 360 degrees and played some song. We would also not need any lights since this hideous thing came with a spotlight and a rotating blue, red, green ...

Either way, the aluminum Christmas tree has come to ... Colour choices included green, pink, blue, red, gold and silver. Many were illuminated from below by multi-coloured lights; some lights ...

If you count yourself among them, then you may already have your tree picked out ... you'll have a new appreciation for red, green and gold. “No one knows for certain how red and green became ...

A Christmas tree. A family tradition. The same tree for 60 years. The year, 1963. A photo documents we purchased an aluminum tree ... which cast brilliant greens, red and odd blue and orange ...

There is more rust than a Yugo dealership, more gold than a Danville dentist, more red ... tree's way of packing it in for the winter. The chlorophyll disappears from the leaves, turning them from ...