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  The Aluminum Tree and Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum &
                               Research Center

There's a scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas [1] where Charlie Brown and
Linus are shopping for Christmas trees and all they find are these triangular
metal trees. I always found that scene to be pretty surreal what with the
extreme artificial nature of the artificial trees. The trees I was familiar
with were made of green plastic needles embedded in a metal wire frame.

You know, real artificial trees, as opposed to the artificial artificial
trees shown in the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

Yeah.

Anyway, the thought that there were ever artificial artificial Christmas
trees never crossed my mind until I came across the Aluminum Tree and
Aesthethically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum & Research Center [2].

Oh my.

It just wasn't a surreal moment made up by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz [3]
and animator Bill Melendez [4].

Oh wait! That's right! It was the 60s.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas
[2] http://www.aluminumtree.com/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Schulz
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Melendez

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