December 04, 2004

ATOM: Aluminum Tree and Ornament Museum. "Slip into the cool, space-age era" of aluminum Christmas trees!
posted by SideDish 20 years ago
  • Silver bells icicles branches...
  • It's like something out of a low budget '50s sci-fi flick. Call Glenda. Tell him where his props ended up so he can ask for license fees.
  • i had one of these. it had a color wheel that shined holiday goodness from below. no exposed wires from string-lights allowed near all that aluminum
  • "You may purchase aluminum tree potpourri for that vintage aluminum tree scent in your home or automobile" I love the smell of aluminum in the morning. Smells like victory Christmas.
  • But I like aluminum xmas trees. And the white plastic ones, too.
  • There was a great comic book in the late 80's-early 90's called Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children written and illustrated by these two cats called Louarpe and Sweetman. Each issue was a self-contained, beautifully illustrated short story. This one in particular sticks out in my mind for a ton of reasons, but mainly because the horrible, nasty, sooper-dysfunctional family the story revolves around keeps this nasty, pink aluminum tree leaning in the corner for christman. It was rusty and tended to cut people while the family laughed. Truly messed. Totally skewed my melon looking at those trees and remembering the rest of that creepy story.
  • or err... christmas, rather.
  • Every year, it comes around. It's less than 45 minutes from my house and I . . . have never been there. I, the lover of all things tacky! The one who craves, craves an aluminum tabletop tree with a color wheel - I've never been there. Maybe this year. Maybe this year.
  • This has me thinking (which is a dangerous thing in itself) that a prismatic metalized mylar xmas tree would rule. One wouldn't even need ornaments!
  • Holy schnitt! Metalized mylar xmas trees exist! The power of tacky taken to the next level. I should have done that google search months ago.
  • Wow, purple-y blue Christmas tree, Nomen Nescio! I need every color. Actually, I have this dream. When I live in a house with a yard, I want to buy lots of those light up Santa Clauses, and lots of those light up nativities, and put them all over the yard. I think a few aluminum or metalized mylar trees will add that certain something the scene needs.
  • "Charlie Brown’s Little Tree Ended the Aluminum Christmas Craze" and other facts about the classic TV show from the wonderfully warped mind behind the best selling book of cat poetry, a newspaper comic strip and other stuff.