This over-the-top Christmas house is worthy of Clark W. Griswold himself
by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
Dec 20, 2021
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES -- The glow danced on the faces of children and adults who gathered on a recent December evening at what’s become an annual Christmas tradition: the transformation of Jeff Norton’s La Mirada, California, home into a “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” display.
This year’s design, which includes a faux second story on Norton’s home, was almost canceled by code enforcement, because the addition was unpermitted and deemed unsafe by the southeastern L.A. County city.
“What does it mean to take that down?” Norton, 46, said recently, pointing to the fake second story on his house, clad
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