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Cut evergreen trees were used in 1923 and from 1954 to 1972. Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House. The height of the living tree is the height when it was first planted.
A Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter lifting Christmas trees using a belly hook, a long line, and a remote hook at a Christmas tree farm in Oregon.. While the first Christmas tree farm may have appeared as early as 1901, Christmas tree production in the United States was largely limited to what could be harvested from natural forests until the 1950s.
In 1930, the U.S.-based Addis Brush Company created the first artificial Christmas tree made from brush bristles. [125] Another type of artificial tree is the aluminum Christmas tree, [121] first manufactured in Chicago in 1958, [126] and later in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where the majority of the trees were produced. [127]
My first Christmas tree showed up in my life already mounted in the corner of our home, alternating colored lights — pulsating bulbs of red, blue, green — and twinkling white lights, a ...
In 1923, First Lady Grace Coolidge gave the District of Columbia Public Schools her blessing to place a Christmas tree on the White House's South Lawn, as per the National Park Service. This ...
As TIME Magazine reported, it is widely believed that in the Middle Ages, modern-day Germany revealed the first real Christmas trees. After all, "In 1419, a guild in Freiburg put up a tree ...