Acorn Bed And Breakfast
Killingworth Connecticut
Rockerfeller Center Christmas Tree
From
Killingworth Connecticut
The Tree at Jim and Cathy Thomson's
201 Rt 80 Killingworth
100 Foot-Tall,55 Foot Wing-Span,7 Tons
Cutting the Tree
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On The Road
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and the trees former owners,
the Thomsons of Killingworth CT
(Photo by Tim Gannon)
CHRISTMAS AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER
The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center twinkles tall and proud as time nears for its removal and shipment to New Jersey where it will live again as a cross country obstacle for the M & M Mars/Essex Horse Trials in Bedminster. This photo was taken during the U. S. Equestrian Team's 1997 event.
1999 TREE FACTS
Contact,
Lindsay Rovick (212) 843-9265 Lauren Melone (212) 843-8047
Type:
· Norway spruce
Dimensions:
· 7 tons
· 100 feet high
· 55 feet wide (span Of the branches)
,4qe:
· Roughly 100 years old. The exact age will be determined once the tree is cut down and the rings are counted.
Liqhts:
· 30,000 bulbs on five miles of wire
Oriqin:
· Home of Jim & Cathy Thomson of Killingworth, CT
Tree Liqhtinq:
· Wednesday, December 1st, 7pm-9pm at Rockefeller Plaza
h/ours of Illumination:
· Spectators can view the lighted tree each day from 5:30am - 11:30pm; all day (24 hours) on Christmas; and from
5:30 AM - 9 PM on New Year's Eve. The last day to view the tree is January 3, 2000.
Some Historical/dilestones:
· 1931 - Workmen on a muddy construction site put up the first Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. At the time of the Depression, the workmen placed the tree amidst the construction, proud to have the tree on the site of their jobs.
· 1933 - First formal Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony. The tree was decked with 700 lights in front of the eight-month-old RCA Building.
· 1936 - Two trees, each 70 feet tall, were erected. For the first time the Lighting Ceremony included a skating pageant on the newly opened Rockefeller Plaza Outdoor Ice Skating Pond.
· 1942 - Three trees were placed on Rockefeller Plaza, one decorated in red, one in white and the other in blue to show support for our troops serving during World War II.
· 1948 - The tree was a 90 foot tall Norway spruce from Mt. Kisco, NY.
· 1949 - The tree was painted silver, to look like snow.
· 1966 - The first tree from outside the United States was erected. It was given by Canada, in honor of the Centennial of its Confederation.
· 1980 - For the 50th Anniversary of Tree Lighting, a 70 foot-tall Norway spruce came from the grounds of the Immaculate Conception Seminary of Mahwab, New Jersey. Bob Hope participated in the Lighting.
· 1996 - The Sisters of the Christian Charity, from Mendham, New Jersey, donated the tree.
· 1999 - The largest tree in Rockefeller Center history from Killingworth, Connecticut.
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