Dec 3rd, 2008 | Rockefeller Center survey

The big tree at Rockefeller Center is...


The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree gets lit tonight (Dec. 3).  It's a 72-foot-tall, 8 ton Norway spruce, and the annual tradition of raising a giant tree and lighting it in one of Manhattan's busiest areas has been going on "officially" since 1933.  "The first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was put up two years earlier during the Depression by workers building the Art Deco complex," reported Newsday.



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Poll tags:Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Center Tree, Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, Rockefeller Center 2008, Rockefeller Center Ny, Nyc, Xmas, Christmas, Holidays, Shopping

 
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Gigi
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Minnesota, United States

posted Dec 6th, 2008 at 11:58 CST

i don't even want to think about xmas shopping. so i won't.

 
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