The first aluminum trees could not be illuminated in the manner traditional for natural Christmas trees or other artificial trees. Each tree took about 15 minutes to assemble. The foil branches had woven aluminum "needles" as well. The central pole had holes drilled into at angles so when the aluminum foil branches were attached they formed a tree shape. Many aluminum trees utilized a rotating color wheel which projected colored light up through the tree from the floor.Īluminum Christmas trees consisted of aluminum branches attached to a wooden or aluminum central pole. At the time they were produced in Manitowoc the trees, including the company's flagship product the "Evergleam", retailed for $25 and wholesaled for $11.25. Between 19, the bulk of aluminum Christmas trees were produced in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, by the Aluminum Specialty Company in that decade the company produced more than one million aluminum trees. The trees were first manufactured by Modern Coatings, Inc. Īluminum Christmas trees were first commercially manufactured sometime around 1955, remained popular into the 1960s, and were manufactured into the 1970s. A 1937 issue of Popular Science advocated spraying aluminum paint using an insect spray gun to coat Christmas trees causing it to appear as if "fashioned of molten silver". Flocked trees, real or artificial, to which flocking was applied became fashionable for the wealthy during the 1930s and have been commercially available since. After Christmas, the cotton was unwrapped and stored with the ornaments for the next year while the branches were burnt or otherwise discarded. These non-green trees made perfect displays for ornaments and dropped no needles. Long before aluminum Christmas trees were commercially available at least by the late 1800s, white "Christmas trees" were made at home by wrapping strips of cotton batting around leafless branches, making what appeared to be snow-laden trees that stayed white in the home. It is more accurate to say that aluminum Christmas trees were the first nongreen Christmas trees commercially successful on a grand scale. Aluminum trees have been said to be the first artificial Christmas trees that were not green in color.
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