"Three large Douglas firs...would be wired together to make one enormous, fantastic Christmas tree. It sat at the end of the garden room rising 20 feet in the air. It was 9 feet wide and almost 30 feet around.
It took from Thanksgiving until Christmas to decorate the tree. Over the years, my grandfather had collected thousands of ornaments from all over the world. The tree held one-of-a-kind rare ornaments valued in the hundreds of dollars when they were first purchased in the `30’s and `40’s. The tree also held homemade ones that Harold received from his charity work.
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!"
Read more of the the remembrances of Harold Lloyd's Christmas tree by his grandaughter at haroldlloyd.com
