Beloved Alabama Christmas tree lot returns for one last season at its old, familiar spot
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For more than 30 years, the Christmas tree lot next to Lloyd’s Restaurant on hectic U.S. Highway 280 has been a Birmingham holiday tradition.
“I’ve got grandkids of my first customers as customers (now),” says 68-year-old North Carolina tree farmer Bob Daniels, who started selling his Fraser firs in the Lloyd’s lot in 1992. “I’ve got a few that have passed on. I was 36 years old when I first went there.”
The Lloyd’s Tree Lot is like a Hallmark holiday classic come to life, where, amidst all the bumper-to-bumper 280 craziness, the traffic pauses and the Christmas season officially begins.
“To see his big, red, striped tent out there and his workers, it’s kind of like Christmas is around the corner when Bob shows up,” says Mary Stevens Flach, a daughter of the late, longtime Lloyd’s Restaurant owners Eli and Pat Stevens.
