Fabulous Christmas Trees

Fabulous Christmas Trees: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

The tradition of lighting the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York began in 1933. These days, the lighting ceremony is an NBC-TV special that makes the tree a worldwide celebrity. The 74-foot-tall Norway spruce was illuminated by 30,000 lights during a ceremony that featured performances by Neil Diamond, Cee Lo Green and Carole King. The tree is decorated with five miles of lights, which will be on until Jan. 7. After that, it will be turned into lumber for the housing charity Habitat for Humanity.

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