Inside those walls of scaffolding is Spruce, the 76-foot tall Christmas tree from Easton, Connecticut. In a couple of weeks, those metal poles and wooden planks will come down, as thousands of Christmas lights and decorations go up.
Workers are decorating around the clock to get Rockefeller Plaza’s most cherished tree ready for the 2009 tree lighting ceremony on Wednesday, December 2nd at 8:55 P.M. sharp.
Even though they only use lights and one star to decorate this Norway Spruce, the star stands 9.5 feet tall and weighs 550 pounds, and more than five miles of wire and lights are used to make this the most famous Christmas tree in the nation.
Rockefeller Plaza is also home to NBC Universal, the Today Show and the world-famous Rockefeller skating rink. Fact – Holiday shopping isn’t even in full swing, but stores are already experiencing toy shortages. Nervous retailers are under-ordering their shipments of toys in anticipation of another economic hit to holiday spending.
By early December, experts have predicted shortages of the top 100 toys as opposed to the usual short supply of the top 15 toys of the year.
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