TRIVIA BITS … CHRISTMAS LIGHTS 1

TRIVIA BITS … CHRISTMAS LIGHTS 1

Christmas lighting adds a festive look to Christmas decorations. Christmas lights can include strings of small or large bulbs to decorate Christmas trees and other holiday decor that may be colored, attractive house lightings and Christmas candles. Elaborate Christmas displays give the whole neighborhoods a magical touch and make them look paradisiacal. Christmas trees are also decorated with abundance of Christmas light ropes that are hung as swags or other ways and even treed and branches are wrapped to give them a divine look. Sparkling icicle lights make dark winter nights look cheerful. Albert Sadacca is believed to be the person who made Christmas tree lighting popular. In the mid-17th century, small candles were first attached to the branch tips of the Christmas trees using wax and pins. In 1882, Edward Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison, first decorated a rotating Christmas tree in America in which 80 red, white and blue bulbs were hand wired. In 1895, President Grover Cleveland set up a lighted Christmas tree in the White House and the tradition soon caught on with the general public. By 1900, large illuminated Christmas trees were used to lure the public into shopping malls.