Christas Tie at the Garabedian House Was a Unforgettable Sight – FESCH.TV

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„Lights, camera, fashion: It’s Christmas time at the Garabedian House.
Published 19th December 2018
– Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Liberace, Cinderella and Cher — the Garabedian family has dressed all these iconic greats, and more. Not in the flesh, but in fiberglass.
Each Christmas, for the last 45 years, the Garabedians have put on a much beloved, larger-than-life display at their residence on Pelham Parkway North, in the Bronx. Filled with cherubs, fresh flowers, mannequins, cartoon figurines, and stage lights on a red-carpet stage lined in pink trim and surrounded by a ten-foot-tall chain link fence, the grandiose spectacle is part wax museum, part theater, in its excessive zeal and appeal.
This time of year, the Garabedian house is no small miracle, but a divine sight to behold, and a slice of camp and artistry found only in New York City.
Every nook and cranny of the corner lawn has been adorned by the Christmas spirit. Its greenery and backyard swimming pool have been temporarily covered and transformed into a red-carpet stage (custom built and equipped with electric outlets, twirling platforms, chandeliers, and at least five security cameras that keep crowds at a safe viewing distance).
– „The Bronx Christmas house by the numbers.
The tradition began with a modest light display in 1973, when the family matriarch, the late Nelly Garabedian, was inspired to deck out the house after witnessing a miracle — an apparent act of divinity, whose exact details remain closely and mythologically guarded by the Garabedian family to this day.
With each coming year has come an additional layer of design, another feat to be noted.
Somewhere along the way, the Garabedians learned how to fashion their own mannequins out of fiberglass. „My mother was a designer, an assistant for Christian Dior, and we’ve been sewing since we were young, we make everything,“ Gary said.
Even the fiberglass dolls are handmade. „Back then, she had the Patti Playpal walking dolls, and they would get destroyed, because we would bring them in and out every night, and the plastic would break.“ Now, they’re all fiberglass and made from scratch, he explained, a craft they learned from a neighborhood priest, whose family worked in the mannequin business…

PELHAM PARKWAY
DECEMBER 14, 2019
WATCH: Bronx Christmas House Owners Decline Offers to Help Light House This year
– „As we reported yesterday, the Garabedian home in Pelham Parkway, otherwise known as “The Bronx Christmas House”, has gone dark for the first time in 46 years due to the homeowners ongoing health issues.
People all across social media, upon hearing the news that this iconic home would not be lit for the holidays, offered to gather the troops and volunteer to help them.
According to News12 The Bronx, even Amazon had reached out and offered to help but the Garabedians declined saying, “…we don’t feel like it’s us doing it, you know?” he says. “So it’s a tradition that we did 46 years and we want to keep it like a family thing.”
They’re hoping that next year they’ll come back bigger and better than ever but in the meantime, they do want to have, at the very least, the nativity scene up and running due to their religious beliefs.
The Bronx Christmas House in years past was a spectacle to behold/Image Copyright Debby Deb
To the Garabedians we thank you for almost half a century of delights and we hope that you return to good health and remember that your health is more important.
The lights are secondary.

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