Bubble Lights
The inspiration for the bubble light came from the glass Glo-Lite candle of the late 1930s.
This light is on the far left in the Royalite stand which contains nine different designs of
C6 series Bubble Lights; the lights are in historical sequence from left to right.
Next to the Glo-lite candle is the first prototype bubble light made in a small maufacturing batch of about 68,000
lights for the christmas of 1942.
This resulted in the red and yellow standardized NOMA bubble light of 1946.
In 1947 Paramount went around the methelene chloride patent by making a tube with oil in it.
The short tube purple was made in 1948. Next is a multi-color Renown from late 1948.
The green Royalite is from 1949. The white Reliance was made from 1949 to 1951.
Timco on the end was made from 1958 to about 1970.
The bubble light tree was made for the introduction of the first bubble lights in 1942.
The second photo shows a NOMA 18 light Bubble Light tree from 1949.
It was purchased at Higbees in Cleveland for $16.47 in December of that great year in Christmas history, which
saw the introduction of eight new Christmas songs.
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