Landmark Status
Over time age, root diseases and high winds began to take their toll on several of the trees. By 1990, there remained 132 of the original 146 trees still standing. That year, Christmas Tree Lane, with its remaining trees now over one hundred years old, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and was nominated for California State Landmark status. The narrative impressed the state officials with a particular phenomenon: the Lane brought two relatively new products together in a single social activity, the electric light and the automobile. With that it was listed California State Landmark No. 990.
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