The 'Aluminum Christmas Tree' was popular in the United States from
1958 until the mid-1960s. The tree was made of aluminum with foil needles and was lit from below via a rotating color wheel.
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| c.1961 |
The aluminum Christmas tree was used as
symbol of the commercialization of Christmas
in 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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| Merry Christmas! Charlie Brown |
"That's it Charlie Brown! We need a tree; a great big, shiny aluminum Christmas tree!"
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