Amazing Vintage Photographs of Harold Lloyd’s Magnificent (Year-Round!) Christmas Tree – Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007

Amazing Vintage Photographs of Harold Lloyd’s Magnificent (Year-Round!) Christmas Tree

If you haven’t put your Christmas tree up yet, then you are already too late. Did you know that Harold Lloyd kept his tree up all year long!

h/t: vintag.es

This most impressive Christmas tree belonged to silent film actor, photographer, renaissance man, Harold Lloyd. His home, Greenacres really sparkled at Christmastime and nothing reflected that sparkle more than his overstuffed Christmas Tree with more than 5,000 glass and handmade ornaments. As the collection grew, so did the tree.

It eventually required several trees to be put together along with reinforced branches and stainless steel bolts. His grand-daughter, Suzanne Lloyd, told Beverly Hills Resident of her Christmas tree memories:

“It started sometime around Thanksgiving. My grandparents would take me downtown to the train yards where the annual shipment of trees would arrive for the holiday season. We would pick out three large Douglas firs and they would be wired together to make one enormous, fantastic Christmas tree. It sat at one end of the garden room rising 20 feet in the air. It was 9 feet wide and almost 30 feet around. Imagine the amount of presents that can fit under a tree that is 30 feet around!

“I remember a jeweled encrusted ostrich egg, and a sequined football, (a reference to the college football hero Harold Lloyd played in his most popular film, The Freshman) I particularly loved a Christmas ball given to him by his friend, make-up artist, Wally Westmore, that was a miniature diorama depicting a bespectacled Harold in a red bathrobe trimming the tree.

“One Christmas, I was with Daddy shopping for more ornaments in Saks Fifth Avenue. He plucked more and more ornaments off the store’s white-flocked display tree unable to decide which ones to purchase. Finally, he realized that every ornament on the tree would look nice at Greenacres and quickly decided right then and there to buy them all. Since there was no room on the tree at home, his impulse purchase had to include Saks white-flocked display tree as well! So the 12 foot, completely decorated tree, was shipped off to Greenacres and found a home in our front entrance hall. I have no idea where Saks put their presents that year after Harold left a gapping hole in their Christmas display.

“One year we counted over 5,000 ornaments hanging from the tree and we still had enough left over to decorate 3 more trees just as big! Every year the tree grew larger to hold more ornaments; then one year it became a permanent fixture in our home. It was simply too large, too decorated and too engineered to disassemble. So we had it fireproofed and celebrated Christmas every day of the year!”












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