Old Timey Christmas Trees Sucked

It looks pretty cool actually OP.

The best example of this is wealthy widow Jane Wyman’s tree in All That Heaven Allows.

It’s cloning and improvement to the varieties that are grown. The Fraser and Douglas Firs in particular have been improved and grown in 2/3rds of the time they used to.

I agree, OP. It’s bizarre.

What's bizarre R4?

These images are from a time before the mass production of plastic garbage which we are inundated with now.

I grew up with plenty of Christmas trees like the one pictured. There were not a lot of options to choose from, you had to take what you could get. Since everyone had trees like this, there was no expectation of having a "perfect" tree.

It's funny that when I was young, I did not like hanging loose tinsel. I thought it was messy looking. Now I kind of like it ... nostalgia will do that to you.

Why exactly was there a shortage of proper, full-looking Christmas trees back then? Had they not been cultivated into existence yet? I don’t get it.

They're charmingly imperfect.

I remember being a kid and my Mother fretting over picking the right tree. And even after we got it home, my Dad had to "even it out" before she started decorating it. It was a whole process.

I was a child in very rural Mississippi - my grandmother would send one of her sons to cut a tree down - it would be about 4 feet tall, I believe, and very straggly. Then she had a few ornaments - maybe some tinsel. It was much more about the ritual of having a live tree there by the fireplace and waking up to gifts and fruit - always oranges. I like that memory much more than the lavish trees my mother/other families had in the city. All about how pretty it could look - like who cares? Well, I didn't, anyway. Marie Condo would have approved.

Isn’t that just a photo of a heavily bearded Gen-Z’er? A male or maybe even a female one??

OP, you're a hick. With bad taste.

[quote]This family just went outside and picked up the first thing they found on the side of the road.

Like yours did with you, OP?

There was probably a lot of Bailey's Irish and love in that room, though.

[quote]This family just went outside and picked up the first thing they found on the side of the road.

But, in time, they grew to love you, OP.

Roadkill Christmas.

Old timey trees were a little sparse.

This one is lovely. From the 1950s:

Those hideous fake silver trees, with a bunch of same-colored balls hanging down - that was the worst (1960s)

R17: Thank you for that photo of Miss Jayne Mansfield.

Our parents would tie extra branches to fill in the skimpy areas of the tree.

Turn on the lights, OP.

[quote] Those hideous fake silver trees, with a bunch of same-colored balls hanging down - that was the worst

A lot of families in 60s suburbia seemed to consider them the latest and coolest in holiday decor and proudly displayed them in their massive picture windows.

One house on my town’s main street had a backlit rotating disc that morphed their silver tree’s hue from blue to red to green on a continuous loop. You could see it from a mile away. It was…a real eye catcher.

Aluminum trees

^^ The couple on the left look absolutely surreal. They could have been the Coneheads’ neighbors.

^Or the B-52's parents.^

I wonder which of them sits in the tiny rocking chair?