For most folks, decorating for Christmas usually involves setting up a tree and some lights on the outside of their house. Most folks don’t live in Lufkin, Texas, though.
For the East Texas town 170 miles southwest of Dallas, they celebrate the holidays in their own, special, Texas kind of way.
Earlier this month, Lufkin residents gathered downtown to witness the lighting of the 45-foot tall Mark 640 pumping unit, festively named Rudolph the Red-Nose Pumping Unit.
According to the Texas Tribune, in 1966, a group of employees of Lufkin Industries began decorating one of the pumpjacks as Rudolph using a small red nose and some lights. The display quickly grew in popularity with the town’s residents and became an annual tradition.
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