Remember GE Lighted Ice Christmas Tree light bulbs? This is a string of actual working Lighted Ice that I still have in my possession:
My dad loved these lights. He used to say he wanted a whole tree of only the green Lighted Ice, but he never collected quite enough. We always had mixed colors on the tree - but there was a heavy representation of green.
I remember the year they stopped making these bulbs. My dad found out about it, and he also found out that Chichester's Pharmacy in Macon, Georgia had a remaining supply. He picked me up one day after school - a rainy, cold day, typical for December in Georgia at that time - I was about 8 years old. We went to Chichester's together and bought every single remaining bulb they had. It was probably 50 bulbs or so. Then we went home and switched out as many "flame" shaped bulbs as we could for the Lighted Ice.
When I got older, and the bulbs had been dying out a handful at a time every Christmas, I found some more for him on ebay. I could not find enough green ones to give him the green-lit tree he always wanted, but I did restore it to its former glory.
Now I use the fire-safe LED lights on my tree. But I do keep this one strand of Lighted Ice to remember him by.