PHOTOS: Transforming Zilker moonlight tower into holiday tree

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
Austin Energy crews are spending the first day of November getting the Zilker moonlight tower to turn into the Zilker Holiday Tree. The 155-foot-fall Zilker Holiday Tree has 39 streamers, each containing 81 bulbs.
The moonlight tower in Zilker Park is one of the 17 original Austin towers still in operation. There were originally 31 towers that provided Austin its first urban lighting system in the late 1800s.
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