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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
the kite-eating tree and his unrequited love for “the little red-headed girl.” It also nearly single-handedly broke the aluminum Christmas tree industry. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
a team at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung has developed a way to quickly and affordably recycle aluminum’s red mud byproduct for use in green steel projects with a little help from ...