Victor Serrao, with Victor’s Custom Christmas Trees, prepares a fresh-cut 100-foot white fir from Mt. Shasta to be installed at the Outlets at San Clemente on Thursday, October 26, 2023. The tree will be decorated and lit on Nov. 18th. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Workers with Victor’s Custom Christmas Trees move a fresh-cut 100-foot white fir from Mt. Shasta into place at the Outlets at San Clemente on Thursday, October 26, 2023. The tree will be decorated and lit on Nov. 18th. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Workers with Victor’s Custom Christmas Trees install a fresh-cut 100-foot white fir from Mt. Shasta at the Outlets at San Clemente on Thursday, October 26, 2023. The tree will be decorated and lit on Nov. 18th. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Victor Serrao, with Victor’s Custom Christmas Trees, measures the base of a fresh-cut 100-foot white fir from Mt. Shasta as it is installed at the Outlets at San Clemente on Thursday, October 26, 2023. The tree will be decorated and lit on Nov. 18th. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Workers with Victor’s Custom Christmas Trees install a fresh-cut 100-foot white fir from Mt. Shasta at the Outlets at San Clemente on Thursday, October 26, 2023. The tree will be decorated and lit on Nov. 18th. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Crews quickly carted the tree through the mall’s passageways and lifted it with a crane into place in the central courtyard. It will be decorated over the next couple of weeks with more than 18,000 multicolored lights and 10,000 bows and ornaments.
The tree is advertised as the tallest live-cut tree in Orange County.
The switch lighting the Christmas tree will be thrown in a celebration on Nov. 18, launching the holiday season at the outlets.
Not quite ready for yuletide thoughts? The mall still has up its Halloween display for photo ops.
