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The Lighting of the Most Famous Christmas Tree (VIDEO)

07-December-2013 · by Verbalist
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The tree is adorned with a Swarovski crystal-studded star
Topping the 12-ton Norway spruce is a 9 1/2-foot-wide Swarovski star

If there’s anything more iconic than the New York City skyline, it’s the New York City tradition of the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

With a flick of the switch, a 76-foot Norway Spruce officially became the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Wednesday (December 04) night after it was illuminated for the first time this holiday season with some 45,000 lights in a ceremony that’s been held since 1933. The tree, which made the 70 mile journey to its new home on the bed of a tractor-trailer, will remain on display until Jan. 7.

Performers appearing at this year’s event were Mary J. Blige, Jewel, Mariah Carey, the Goo Goo Dolls and Leona Lewis.

The First-Ever Christmas Tree At Rockefeller Center

The workers who were building Rockefeller Center set up the first Christmas tree in 1931 with the first tree-lighting official ceremony held in 1933.

The tree pictured above was erected during construction of the building, when workers decorated a 20-foot balsam fir tree with a “string of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tins cans.”

Rockefeller Center Lights 2013 Christmas Tree

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