#377 The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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Rockefeller's Christmas Party
The construction of radio city began on july 20 second, 19 31. Almost two thirds of new york's construction workers at this time were out of work. On december 20 fourth, nine, ten, 31 employees at the radio city excavation managed to haul a 20 foot christmas tree down into the pit,. erecting it in the mud and adorning its branches with strings of cranberries, paper garlands and tin cans. In the only existing photograph we have of this important moment, workers are lined up by the tree collecting their pay. And so in a certain way, this really is the most fabulous tree that was ever placed here. Two months later, in feb
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