When I was a kid (1980s) we had some lights that I can’t find at any store. I call them spiky Christmas lights and they looked like this.
That is the only picture I could find of them on the Internet. The employees at all my local stores including Lowes, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart, are not familiar with them. Do these lights have a specific name, and where could I go about finding them? They bring back fond childhood memories, but my parents do not remember where they bought them or what happened to them.
I think of them as old fashioned because they are seemingly no longer sold. Similar to how watching a movie on VHS seems more old fashioned than going to a theater even though theaters have been around a lot longer than VHS.
Miniature lights used to come in a variety of designs like that. Most of the plastic refractive parts around the bulb looked like a corolla or crown. i kind of miss those- all the mini lights are just bare bulbs nowadays.
I took this as a google challenge. However the pic you linked to is pretty blurry so it’s hard to tell exactly what those things look like. Could it be similar to these?
Those are the ones. The earlier link Kimbalkid posted helped as well, but wasn’t quite right. I have googled further, and it looks like they are for sale in the UK, under the name diamond fairy lights. I haven’t been able to find the actual lights on any USA stores website.
They are very spiky, if they are like the ones I remember, and putting them on the actual lights will likely result in lots of small cuts to my fingers :eek:
How about these? I remember having these in the house for decades. The best damn lights ever. We kept them as long as we could, way past when most of the color had rubbed off the bulbs. Finally too many bulbs burned out and couldn’t be replace. They were originally bought by my father in the 50s long before I was born.
A. Thank you for reminding all us boomers that we are not long for this world.
B. Aren’t those still in production? I don’t do Xmas, so am not in the market, but I can’t get to a pharmacy window without seeing the stuff. Maybe this was ancient history when I saw them.
Seriously, there were two versions of the “star” lights. My family had a second version where the bulb used a standard base and the star fit on the socket, so you could use standard lamps instead of having to transfer it to the star base.
