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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 77-foot tall Norway Spruce, is guided onto a flatbed truck after being cut from the yard of Carol Schultz, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- Students from local elementary schools cheer as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 77-foot tall Norway Spruce, is cut, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 77-foot tall, 12-ton Norway Spruce, is craned onto a flatbed truck after being cut from the yard ofCarol Schultz, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- Workers prepare to cut down a 77-foot tall, 12-ton Norway Spruce that will serve as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- Local residents watch as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 77-foot tall Norway Spruce, is cut, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- Carol Schultz hugs the trunk of her 77-foot tall Norway Spruce that she donated to serve as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)Arborists cut down a Norway spruce Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 in Florida, N.Y. to become New York's famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. It will arrive on Saturday at Rockefeller Center, where it will be hoisted and surrounded by scaffolding for the decoration process. The lighting ceremony is on Dec. 4. (Robert G. Breese/Times Herald-Record via AP)IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 77-foot tall, 12-ton Norway Spruce, is craned onto a flatbed truck after being cut from the yard ofCarol Schultz, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)
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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TISHMAN SPEYER- This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 77-foot tall Norway Spruce, is guided onto a flatbed truck after being cut from the yard of Carol Schultz, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Florida, NY. The tree will be brought into New York City by flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 9. The 87thRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)
FLORIDA, NY – A Norway spruce that years ago was displayed on its owner's coffee table will soon rise in a much grander setting: the middle of Rockefeller Center.
Carol Schultz bought the sapling for the 1959 Christmas season. After displaying it in her home in the village of Florida, New York, she planted it in her front yard.
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In 2010, Schultz and her companion Richard O'Donnell went on Rockefeller Center's website and made the 14-ton tree's bid for stardom.
Earlier this year, they learned it had been chosen.
It was cut on Thursday and lifted by crane onto a flatbed truck.
It will arrive on Saturday at Rockefeller Center, where it will be hoisted and surrounded by scaffolding for the decoration process.
The lighting ceremony is on Dec. 4.
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