Record #:

22844

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Everyone has wonderful memories of Christmas. However, the generation fortunate enough to celebrate Christmases from the 1920s through the 1960s might have more cherished memories. It was about 1916 that electric Christmas lights were first used in Greenville. In 1928, the Merchant’s Association began putting a 30 ft. Christmas tree on top of the traffic island at Five Points. In the 1960’s there used to be a nation-wide radio broadcast from Greenville, issuing a Tar Heel Christmas greeting to the whole country.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Dec 5-18 1990, p8

Subject(s):

Christmas--Greenville