The color wheel featured various colored segments on a clear plastic wheel when the wheel rotated a light shone through the clear plastic casting an array of colors throughout the tree’s metallic branches. Here you will find classic, original aluminum Christmas trees, color wheels, and rotating tree turner stands from the Space Age. The common method of illumination was a floor-based “color wheel” which was placed under the tree. Fire safety concerns prevented lights from being strung through the tree’s branches. The first aluminum trees could not be illuminated like real Christmas trees or other artificial trees. The trees were either left undecorated or decorated with sets of brightly colored glass ornaments made by manufacturers such as Shiny Brite. The trees, including the company’s flagship product the “Evergleam”, retailed for $25 and wholesaled for $11.25. In that decade the company produced more than one million aluminum trees. The largest manufacturer of aluminum Christmas trees were produced in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, by the Aluminum Specialty Company. The trees, along with other antique and vintage holiday items and toys, will be on display at the museum through the month of December.Īluminum Christmas trees were first commercially manufactured sometime around 1955. Two of the aluminum trees, are on display in the Heritage Room exhibit. The museum has a couple of aluminum Christmas trees in its collection along with a color wheel.
The tree is made of aluminum, featuring foil needles and illumination from below via a rotating color wheel.
The aluminum Christmas tree is a type of artificial Christmas tree that was popular in the United States from the 1950s to the mid-1960s.
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