Ok, here is ours. Yep, its a fake. Got it for free and had to chop it, just too tall a stance. Family tradition is the Lionel trains around the tree. My dad used to work 2nd shift, mom was too busy cleaning the house. Boy I used to abuse those poor trains. Line the whole city up one building at a time to see how many the train could go through. Now, I let my daughters play with them when I am in the room! Times change.....Merry Christmas everybody! Don
heres our green aluminum holi-gay tree this year. its 7 foot tall with a rotating base. we like it. we bought it at a flea market for 12 bucks. it was new and unused in the box. nice score I think.
Geez, what kind of MAN assembles a tree out of a box??? I went to the forest to pick out my tree. Used the ax on a few and the chainsaw on the rest. I guess I don't have any pics of the monster saw though. "Just like the 50s bro." TM
My grandpa still puts one up just like that, its chrome! Ive never seen another chrome tree in my life. Its the same tree from when my dad was a kid, HE STILL USES IT! he bought it in 1958!!! I wish he still had that 58 pontiac he bought the same year
We have two different prelighted fake trees. It takes me about ten minutes to set them up then my wife and son decorate them. The way I see it, less time dealing with sticky tree sap and more time in the garage. Works for me anyway.
We are still looking for an 50's Aluminum Christmas Tree. My friend down in Florida found one in a dumpster still in the original box...Lucky Dog!
If you are going to have the cool aluminum tree, you also have to have the spinning color wheel behind it, although it doesn't really show in the pic.
My grandmother threw out two of those aluminum trees years ago. I really wish I would have taken those things. People are really starting to look for them now.
funny last night during the weather on the ten oclock news a drag xmas tree was slipped into the holiday mix of background pics used during the next day forcast. i did not notice it being anything new then realized that most people would not know what it was... made my day heck i have a tleast a dozen of the aluminum trees....and lites(friend a garbage man has been saving them fo me) the kids think they are old and don't get it ? paperdog
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