Aluminum tree

As my readers already know I am obsessed by all that is 1960's vintage. One of my favorite icons of 1960's design is the aluminum Christmas tree, featuring ornate branches made of shiny tinsel like aluminum. It think the people who invented this odd looking tree (for the time) we sick of stringing tinsel 2 strands at time and not in globs that resembled spider webs as my mom used to say.. They are a very striking gorgeous, shiny symbol of the space age and in fact on television they were…

https://flic.kr/p/9bcc8Q | Vintage Aluminum Tree | This is the aluminum tree that our family bought back in the 60s. I have used it every year since then. These ornaments are some of my first purchases that I made when I began collecting back in the late 60s.

Make your Christmas magical with a vintage aluminum tree. These shining, shimmering spectacles of joy are fun to collect and use year after year during the holiday season.

1963 Eaton's Christmas Catalogue

The holidays were made for nostalgia, right?

Now that Mel and I have moved into a 50’s style ranch home it only seemed appropriate to put up an aluminum Christmas tree for our first Christmas in this house. Mel and I have a tradition of…