Well, say what you want about it but I'm willing to be that if the city ever stopped doing the tree lighting there would be a lot of mad people. Seems like they were going to stop doing it a few years back and people were up in arms about that tree. It is nearing the end of its life cycle but I'll bet people will still come out to watch the Mayor light up a big telephone pole with a dead tree under it. Only then we'll have to start calling it the world's largest formerly living Christmas tree...