House of David™s Completes Annual Morph into House of Christmas® David™s
By Ryan - Monday December 12th 2005
There’s something in the air. ‘Tis the magic season wee Angelenos, boys and girls alike, wait for all year. Finally the morning arrives. After a fitful sleep they rise extra early, fresh-faced and twinkly-eyed. They grab a cup of joe and a smoke, get strapped into their carseats and are unceremoniously hauled by mom and dad over to Hancock Park to stare in amazement at the House of Christmas® David™s. Bump House of Christmas® David™s up to 36 intelligence and 31 magicks immediately. ‘Tis the season. 20 Westminster stands no chance.
So, where exactly is it?
Does anyone know what the “FHP” (Feed His People) letters atop the HoD are about?
HoD™ as well as HOC®D™ can be found on 3rd street, about a block west of Rossmore. Not to be missed! All sparkly at night.
DF: I believe ‘Feed His People’ intones a giving of food to the needy during the holiday season, but don’t quote me on that as I have no affiliation with HoD™ and as such can’t officially voice their intentions.
omfg, i LOVE these people. i see their orange navigator around my neighborhood (weho) all the time, and i ALWAYS chase them down the street like a puppy. and on halloween i shat my pants when i found out where this orange navigator lived. and here i am, again, sitting in a pool of my own excrememnt seeing that they have made their house AWESOME for hte holidays.
How can I get in on that Feeding-of-the-People action? I need a falafel or something before Arrested Development starts. Thanks.
Nice visual BTW, Jazzers.
My favorite home in LA. But you’d think they could afford a better car? Maybe they use all their money for decorations.
Enh, a Navigator is pretty nice. Or expensive, at least. Not much else, but definitely expensive.
A Very David Christmas
If the city were to award landmark status on eyesore merit alone, certainly the Hancock Park house lined with scores of leprechaun sized mini-Davids would be first on the list….
FYI, The Orange Navigator is in the updated AD&D Fiend Folio:
ORANGE NAVIGATOR
Frequency: Very Rare
No. Appearing: 1-3 (on dealer’s lots, 10-30)
MV: up to 140″ per round
AC: -2
HP: 96
# AT: 1
Damage: 3-18 – AC of player
Special Attack: Loud Stereo
Special Defense: Onstar, Lojack
The Orange Lincoln Navigator is found on the 345th plane of the Abyss and in Burbank next to the infamous Hooters of Burbank. It may, at will, use any of the following spells three times per day:
Run Red Light
Curse Pedestrian
Cure Light Wounds
Continual Light
Cause Accident
This house is not in Hancock Park. It is on Beverly Blvd. in Larchmont.
they also have a lamborghini (or ferrari possibly) painted in the same color- it isn’t a flat orange- it is like the color of those cheesy oakly lenses.
hate to be one of ‘those people’ but it’s not on beverly – it’s on 3rd…just in case someone wasn’t sure where it was and wanted to feast their eyes.
A couple corrections – they had a convertible rolls and a corvette all painted the same color. And just inside the front door is a giant portrait of the owner. In a smoking jacket. With an afro.
No shit.
Cracker, if that’s true, I am going to go genuflect several times in front of the House of Davidâ„¢s.
Also: ethnicity?
I used to drive by this house every day on my way home from work. It’s definitely in Hancock Park on 3rd Street. I also saw that car in the fabric district downtown before… perhaps they were picking up some orange flame-print fabric for their interior?
I used this house for a Virtual Geocache.
Here are pictures taken over the last few years at this location by different GeoCachers:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.aspx?guid=1954c11c-01ed-485f-ace7-490b20983221
aren’t the random colored cars (i.e. orange) cheaper or am i living a lie?
You’re not living a lie, mo – a lot of the time you can get a better deal on a crappier color, like one of the FOUR off-whites/beiges the Navigator comes in. But in the case of this car, the orange costs more. Lincoln doesn’t offer orange – it’s a custom paintjob. I always thought driving a stock Navigator didn’t scream “look at me!” nearly loud enough.
And it’s the southeast corner of 3rd and Muirfield. I just checked terraserver and the Navigator is visible — FROM SPACE!
You’re not living a lie, mo – generally the crappier colors are more likely to be discounted, like the FOUR varieties of off-white/beige the Navigator comes in. That orange was more expensive; it’s a custom job, Lincoln doesn’t offer orange. The stock Nav certainly didn’t scream “look at me!” loud enough.
Also, the house is at the southeast corner of 3rd and Muifield. Just checked Microsoft Terraserver and the Navigator is visible – FROM SPACE.
space link
*Muirfield (if I’m going to correct people I should probably be correct)
So, my sister thought that “FHP” actually stood for “F**k Hancock Park”. Glad we got that one cleared up!
I love this place. Does anyone know anything about the owner? I have been speculating for years…..
Every time I go to a garden supply store I always look for David seeds so I can plant some in front of my own home, but I never find them. Does anybody know where I might be able to find some?
long ago (like last year) when i used to work on a direct dialogue campaign for a non-profit, my co-worker and i made friends when many people we would see at popular los angeles spots like larchmont village. this one guy is an actor, he lives in larchmont and he drives a porsche. he never told us what movies he had been in, he just said enough notable ones so that he lives well, i still can not place him til this day. so we see the infamouse sunset suv, and i go, “oh my god, it’s the guy who lives at the my big fat greek wedding house down the street!” and i want to follow the car but then the actor friend starts telling me a few stories about the man.
1. he threw this “gangster” party at his house not too long ago, where he made everyone dress up like “gangsters” and he hired a helicopter to patrol the house the entire night, you know, to add a real “gangster” party effect.
2. he always has many “friends” stay over, and these friends usually steal stuff from his house and then he files police reports over his stolen goods, actor-friend said “well if you stop inviting all these boys you don’t know over, you won’t get jacked the
next day.”
3. he is in the recording industry, i believe he is a big time producer.
obviously, his neighbors hate him. and hate his decor, and he does it on purpose. but man, i like his sense of style and humor, i’d do that if i had a house in some primo real estate, especially a house on that corner.
The Ugliest House in Los Angeles
I’m supposed to be doing digital camera research but I just had to post pictures of this house! It’s like an LA institution! I’ve driven by it thousands of times and the first thing that pops into my head when…
Apparently they were just warming up. The house now appears to be wrapped in giant red bows and Santa is on the roof…playing a saxophone. Of course he is.
i heard the guy is somehow related to the musical “cats”.. either he performed in it or choreographed the whole thing or something. i saw that house with mine very own eyes, and even w/o the xmas deco, it’s pretty flaming. love it!
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This guy was on that E! show “High Maintenance 90210″
http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/highmaintenance/castbios/index.jsp#norwood
If I remember correctly he made the butler polish all the David statues. Here is his website: http://www.justnorwoodmusic.com/
He is also the founder of the foundation “Feed His People”
A horrible eye sore for the entire Hancock Park area, you can easily tell the owner is from the ghetto.