When I was kid, my record player had 45, 33 and a third, and 78. They were settings that determined how fast the record played. We still have a strand of aluminum tinsel that hung on my grandparents tree. It's old an threadbare and we don't put it on the tree anymore, but we still have it. Both the museum and the Mantique store were awesome. Also, now that you've seen a white squirrel in the wild, maybe you'll see a Sasquatch as well .

I love this! I currently have my aluminum Christmas tree up in our living room. It was my great-grandmother’s in the 60s, and when she died, my grandpa put it up every year until he passed in 2017, and now it belongs to me. It’s a little scraggly but considering what all it’s been through, it looks pretty good.

My grandma put up her aluminum Christmas tree with the color wheel for years with the wrapped chocolate ornaments. Such a sweet memory of that tree in the corner of her living room. She had floor to ceiling paned windows on both sides..It was beautiful! Awe I miss her..

I have an aluminum christmas tree that I got a few years ago at an antique store. This is great. I love vintage

I had a white squirrel in front of my house in Ohio. My parents had an Aluminum Christmas tree & I still have my Mom’s white ceramic tree she made. Merry Christmas 🎄

I remember working in a separate lot at the airport in Pensacola Florida. I would see a white squirrel, but the squirrel might be somebody's pet or used to be. He would come up to my booth door and beg for food. That was years ago, though.

Love this. Aluminum trees are a fascinating moment in time.

As a kid back in the 60's my mom always wanted one but they were too expensive at the time.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas 🎄 Jacob and Jenny Penny. Its getting to look alot like Christmas everywhere you go. 🎶 😊 Like the ideal your in North Carolina showing the local museum like this aluminum Christmas trees and a white squirrel 🐿️.

Okay you have to go to the Corning museum of glass! I’ve made 3 Christmas ornaments while there they have glass sculpting, blowing and all sorts of things and this video is awesome I remember when my friends had an aluminum tree! I collect old ornaments from all over the world!

I bet the owner of the tree museum is a hilarious guy 😂. Aluminium Christmas tree seedlings got me laughing 🤣

Hi Jacob and Jenn! This was awesome, I loved the aluminum trees!

Good Morning Jacob and Jennifer 🙋🏽. Have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas to you ‼️🎄

love the squirrel and sasquatch collaboration!

Looks like a fun day. I may have to travel over there next year to check that out. Those squirrels are adorable. Of course all squirrels are adorable. 😊

"aesthetically challenged seasonal ornaments" HAHAHHAHAHA yooo that hits hard!!! I'm off to our local pig museum XD can't wait to get my compers into some of the served pig they have there as well

jen playing all of the elvis' at once made me legitimately cry laughing 😂😂😂 i love how you managed to find a copyright loophole!

My Grandparents had an aluminum Christmas tree that they had decorated every year at Christmas. Kudos to your KZfaq Channel, Jacob!

Born 1959, parents had silver tree too. No color wheel but they broke the rules and put colored lights on it! Love these trees.

Wild. I just saw an aluminum tree that they were selling at Big Fun in Cleveland in my latest video!!

My grandma had one of those trees. Brought back memories.

Excellent video!!! Took me back to the 1960's when we grew up in Inkster, Michigan, which us a small suburb of Detroit!!! We had the quintessential aluminum Christmas Tree with the 4 Coloured Colour Wheel of red, yellow, blue, n green. It was spectacular especially at night sitting in the living room with only the colour wheel on shining magnificently over the glittering aluminum Christmas 🎁🎄 Tree that we grew up with till age 12 in 1969!!! We still have projector slides of my brother Ken, RIP, my Sisters Linda n Wendy n myself in our yearly new Christmas outfit, coat, matching shoes, hat, purses, gloves, the windowpane stockings we wore that were the big fashion item at the time. The tree always had shiny silk round Christmas ornaments in one solid colour, different each year, green, blue, red, gold, silver n a super modern Tree Star Topper that spiked right up the middle of the main tree pole!!! What FANTASTIC memories you have inspired this Saturday, December 16, 2023, and I REALLY needed inspiration!!! Thank you once again for making my day, Jacob and Jenn!!! Merry Christmas to you and yours and Happy New Year too!!!🎁🎄🙏🧑‍🎄💎❄️☃️😇🥂🍾🏙️🌆🌃🎊🎋🎉🎄

That water buffalo was oddly soulful! 😂❤

When I was growing up in the early 1970s we had the aluminum tree and color wheel. But I just found out is my husband who is from Southern California and born in 1963 had never seen an aluminum tree

I live just outside Philadelphia but have never seen a white squirrel however I have seen occasionally😊 an all black squirrel. Thanks for showing the aluminum Christmas trees. My aunt had one with the color wheel. By the way the reason for the color wheel was because they did not want you to put regular Christmas tree lights on the trees. I guess because the old bulbs ran so hot they were afraid the bulbs would damage the light weight branches. Also if the tree was made of true aluminum it could conduct an electrical charge If an open wire came into contact with it. As for records the one on the tree were 45’s so called because they spun at 45 revolutions per minute. They usually only had one song on each side. The other older records ran at 78 RPM and usually were about 10 inches in size, later and even now most long play records run at 33 and a third RPM. THEY ARE USUALLY 12 inches in size. There were also special or promo records that could be an odd size but usually played at either 45 Rpm or 33 and a third. There was also one odd ball record that ran at 16 RPM. Those were usual spoken word records used for educational purposes.

The title of Jenn's song would be 'Makes Everyone's Life Brighter by Her Smile.'

I was just over in that town the other day. I did not know about the tree museum. Looks like i'm going over there today i've got to check it out. Really can't emphasize how much i'm enjoying these North Carolina. Thank you for putting out this videos today.

This sure brought me back to childhood! We had an aluminum tree, color wheel the works!

The tree with the records was foofy! It was extra. Jen was just adorable in this video. Can't wait for the next one!

Aluminum Christmas tree is very unique and more affordable than a regular Christmas tree

Great video Jacob and Jenny I still have an aluminum Christmas tree and the white squirrels are adorable. Looking forward to your next video save travels my friends and take care.

So as my brother and me got older my dad decided to get a aluminum tree the tree it’s self turned an we also had a color wheel very beautiful to watch though missed the colorful regular tree 🎄 Brian from Northeast Ohio 👍👍👍

I enjoyed this museum so much. Thanks for taking us along. I remember many of my friends and relatives had the glamorous aluminum Christmas trees.

I would figure a white squirrel would stick out to a hawk or other predators with good vision and not have a good chance.

Jen looked super cute in the white squirrel mask and even cuter looking through the squirrel's nose. Super Cute!!!

Blueberry Hill was a song done originally by Fats Domino.

My grandparents had one of those automated barmen. I loved that thing.

My Mom's boyfriend at the time had one. He gave it to my Sister and I, we put up in the TV room. It was great!

Is there a Festivus Aluminum Pole museum? 😂😂😂

We had an aluminum tree growing up

Ha ha ha, love this video!! My husband grew up in "this" house, with a classic aluminum Christmas tree with a color wheel! We met when we were in high school, so I remember it well! 😄

I grew up with the aluminum tree with the spinning light wheel! I would lay under the tree and watch the wheel for hours!

The good old days.

Enjoyed! We too had an Aluminum Tree, with the Color Wheel, in the late 60s, early 70s! Love Brevard too! 😊

You guys are So nice ❤I hope you both have a wonderful Christmas 🎁 God bless love each other many happy years ahead ❤❤

I love seeing Jenny & U hangout ❤ the Elvis trees were all my favorite too🎄

Thanks for sharing Jacob,from St. John’s Newfoundland Canada 🇨🇦,hope you and Jen have a great Christmas 🎄

All speeds are measured in Revolutions Per Minute (RPM). There is 78 RPM (the first records made) (10" diameter), 45 RPM (7" diameter), 33⅓ RPM (12" diameter) and 16 RPM (9" diameter). 16 RPM was too slow a speed for High Fidelity (HiFi) sound, a precursor to stereo sound so it hasn't been used in decades.

Enjoyed your video with the Aluminum trees. It brought back lots of memories. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Yes. Those were 45's you saw. There were records that were 78, but they're long gone. 33's are the "normal" sized.

Love this! The Aluminum trees are a fascinating are such really great trees for Christmas. Hope you enjoy it Jacob!

I recall fondly my parent's aluminum tree with a color wheel. Wish I had it, now.

There are 3 sizes of records, 33, 45, 78. I had an antique recird player that only played the original first size of 78, n had a small collection of 78" records. They are very thick n have a different feel to them compared to 33's n 45's are the small ones that fit on mist juke boxes and on the suitcase recird players that were popular in the 1950's n 1960's. I also had what was called a "Close N Play" that was a small suitcase record player that would automatically activate n begin to play every time you put the record on and just closed the lid.

I will never forget the year we had an aluminum tree with the color wheel. I hated it!!! My dad and I had always gone into the woods and cut down a big cedar tree. I was heartbroken that we didn’t continue our tradition. The aluminum tree was never the primary tree again. lol

I remember these tree when I was very young.. I am not sure if we had one but a member of the family did. I always thought it was so ugly and bold and bare looking.. and those retro decorations. very 1960's 70's Hope you are both well Marie XXXX

What a fun tour. As A kid my family had a silver aluminum tree that sure brought back memories. Stay well,safe and happy. Also Merry Christmas!

Hi Jacob and Jenn and Merry Christmas. there are three record sizes 78 .33.45 the corning museum of glass is very nice with glass blowing demostrations , worth the trip to see. thanks joe santa

Wow! What throwback to my childhood!!! There were many families in my neighborhood who celebrated Christmas with an aluminum tree! Indeed the color wheel was the way to bring illumination to the tree, because lights strands of those days only consisted of C7 size bulbs and they were not recommended for aluminum trees due fire potential from bulb geat and electrical arching ⛔️⚡️! Vinyl records in the mid 20th century were made in 3 size/RPM playback speeds: 78 (fastest), 45 (midrange) & 33 1/3 long playing albums. Record players of the era had a playback speed switch to manually select the playback speed. Another popular feature to record players was the automatic stack of same speed records. A completely mechanical function provided audiophiles to play multiple records by loading them into the player’s spindle, above the turntable and the player would detect the stack records and cycle through each record and play the track(s). The mechanical function would automatically detect the position of the needle arm being near the spindle and that would cause the player to lift & retract needle arm and release the next record to drop onto the turntable and move the needle arm to the start position on the record. These were engineered mechanical devices of the era and provided the method for recording industry to grow and prosper. OMG! My parents had the same brand box of ornaments! 9:45 seeing it gives me joy 🥹 and melancholy 😔 because this year I’ve lost several beloved family members 🌻😭.

I love these random places you find. It had a nice vibe in there, though the color wheel sounded so sad. Lol

my brother has one from the 40s and yes it had a color wheel.still has the tree today

Awesome job my friend .. !!

I have an Elvis Juke box and a white ceramic tree. ❤ very nice display 👌

I love this video!!! ❄️ Thank you very much

I have one of these aluminum trees and original one too. They are fragile things. Plastic round ornaments are the only thing I feel comfortable putting on it.

Nice trees

Awwwwwwww so many adorable squirrels love it!

Nice I will add this to the list of places to visit. Thanks Jacob.

Great! Wishing you the best. Take care. Love all your content.

Lovely!

We didn't see one last spring while in Brevard but we did 3 years ago at a park in a residential area near downtown.We first went to the college as we had read that online.They were mowing that day so we had no luck.We found that Franklin park may have them.We managed to see one in a yard near the cute park which has a pool and playground.Y'all missed the 3 white statues of the white squirrels ( in various sizes /shades) in front of city hall, a block down from that White Squirrel shoppe.

The ceramic tree's were a thing in the 80's and 90's. I think the replica aluminum tree's you referenced are actually made out of tinsel. They had a brief resurgence about 2-3 years ago.

18:57 There's something a little squirrely about Jen! She nuts! lol

Jacob YOU DID IT !! You took me back to my childhood where I can still hear my 2 younger sister's and I screaming and crying that we didn't like the new aluminum Christmas tree and how stupid it was to have a color wheel. The dang thing only had 3 color's one of which was Yellow ! What the Heck does Yellow have to do with Christmas is what us girl's asked our parents. We Begged for a few years to PLEASE get rid of THAT Tree. It must have been costly back in the day because we suffered having that stupid Christmas tree for a few years. Thank You for the trip down memory lane. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ❤from Washington State!

Morning from the West...Denver❤😊

Good Morning Jacob .. !!

Interesting fact: "White squirrels" are actually common grey squirrels with white fur. It is a colour aberration like albinism. Jacob and Jen look great!

Awesome video as always Jacob keep up the awesome work merry Christmas to you and Jenn

It really is a squirrel! 🐿️ 2:43 Also let’s change the subject haha

Let’s have an aluminum Christmas 🎅🏽

I love Elvis too Jenn how cool

I found two at a garage sale with a musical color wheel. I sold one but I still have the other. Tell Jen to start checking garage sales in the spring

Wow I remember aluminum trees with the color wheel, but I didn't know they came in green or blue or red!! Can't make up my mind whether I like the multi-colored ornaments on the trees or the single-color ones mixed with silver ornaments. Both are rather pretty.

New to channel Love all the Cool Places you film! Love those trees ! Happy Holidays 🎄🎄🎄

Loved this so much. Have always wanted one and the four color light wheel one would shine in it. Again, Thanks guys 😊

These aluminum trees are a mood. I actually do like them. I think that if you do get one it should be like in addition to a green one. I went to the Corning Museum of Glass as a kid it was awesome. My grandma got me a ceramic light up tree except its a Halloween one. I once tried putting Halloween decorations on my tree since my house is done mostly in Vintage Halloween but omgs I actually hated it. I never did that again.

I hope you spent more time in Branson and not just passing through hope to see more

I remember an old 1960s record player with speeds options of 16, 33, 45 and 78

There’s also a town with white squirrels named Marionville, MO.

Jacob! You should do another ‘Choose My Adventure’ trip soon!!

Loved all the trees I remember the first one I ever saw my aunt had mom didn't like it but I thought it was amazing that squirrel was so cute Jenn enjoyed you and Jacob so much today 😊😊😊

Long Live Elvis! Thanx Carpet Bagger!

There were 4 sizes that I remember. I think the first was 16, I could be wrong about that one, 33 1/3, 45, and then 78's.

I didn't see a Festivus aluminum pole . 😂

My first tree I got when I got my first apartment was a white tree and blue onanments

I literally never been there or saw but it looks kinda wonderful!

Vermont Country Store sells (sold Out) Lighted Christmas Tree Color Wheel- they do restock

You know that someone is going to ask why they've never seen an aluminum Christmas tree growing in the wild. I just know someone will make that comment.

If you want to see more white squirrels come to Olney,IL. I have family that live in Olney and when I was a kid we use to have a family reunion there every year. I use to see multiple white squirrels every time I would visit. Unfortunately the white squirrel population in Olney has been on the decline the past few years.

There are 45 records I have some in my record collection

i love the museum, but if you want to know where to find a white squirrel at wait until it's cold or dark.