The Stoeckers adorned it differently each year Bud would keep detailed notes on decoration placement to avoid repeat performances. It wasn’t green and there were no branches - only rings, on which garland can be piled and ornaments hung.
A Masonite board version followed, and it was a third, Plexiglass model that Bliss and his siblings grew up with during holidays at the Stoeckers’ Broomfield home. Stoecker first created the unusual looking tree in 1965 out of cardboard. Matt Bliss runs Denver-based Modern Christmas Trees, a company making and selling his grandfather’s vision.
Next week, he’ll make his national television debut, as his grandson appears on “Shark Tank” with a revamped version of Stoecker’s 51-year-old invention: a collapsible, artificial Christmas tree made of concentric rings. Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker, a Broomfield resident and engineer, died in September 2012.
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