The Christmas tree on Main St., at Disneyland
Like most of us, Disneyland no longer uses a real Christmas Tree, on Main St. They switched to a giant sixty food artificial tree in 2008. A cast member told me this weekend that the switch was due to the time it took to put the lights on the real trees. Now they store the artificial tree in a big warehouse and it is a lot quicker to deploy it, although it still takes a few days.
These artificial trees are not, by the way, fireproof. Back in 2005 a similar tree went up in flames, at 3 am, at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel, forcing a mass evacuation of thousands of guests. I know, as I showed up the very next day to oversee the safety of the restoration workers, from American Technologies, who cleaned up the mess. Continue reading
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