@medicalgeography: Fake for 15 Christmases: UNION SQUARE (SAN FRANCISCO) CHRISTMAS TREE: San Francisco's most famous Christmas tree was fake for 15 Christmases 🎄 Macy's switched Union Square to a reusable artificial tree in 2011. On Nov. 6, KRON4 reported that Macy's will stop paying for it, and the city will fund a real tree, lit by Black Friday. S.F. also has a 50-ft noble fir at Civic Center and Uncle John's Tree in Golden Gate Park, a living cypress about 100 ft tall, lit for the holidays since 1929. Real or fake: which do you want? 👇 #SanFrancisco #UnionSquare #ChristmasTree #Macys #SF #BayArea #DataViz #Maps #Christmas #History Sources: KRON4 (Nov. 6, 2026); NBC Bay Area (Nov. 7, 2026); KQED; S.F. Chronicle; S.F. Examiner; Emperor Norton Trust; Macy's (2010); SF Civic Center; SF Rec & Park; 6sqft; KTLA. Maps: DataSF shoreline (via UC Berkeley); roads and parks © OpenStreetMap contributors; Natural Earth; white fir range: USGS, after Little (1971); terrain: AWS Terrain Tiles (SRTM, USGS 3DEP).

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