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.

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.

But on this day she was schooling Baby Boomers from the Lifelong Learning Institute at the UW-Green Bay Manitowoc Campus on the finer points of aluminum Christmas trees. In a second-floor meeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...