General Electric Showcase House

The General Electric Showcase House was at 1669 San Onofre Drive in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles in California.

Reagan served as a spokesperson for the American conglomerate General Electric, who furnished the house with the latest consumer products.

The site of the house overlooks Santa Monica Bay, with views to Catalina Island on a clear day.

[1][2] In his 1990 autobiography, An American Life, Reagan described the house as a "dream home overlooking the Pacific Ocean that GE stuffed with every imaginable electric gadget".

[4] Nancy Reagan was not happy with her "home being turned into a corporate showcase", but acceded due to the stability provided by her husband's income from General Electric.

[5] Reagan would joke to dinner guests that the house had a direct link to the Hoover Dam (a hydroelectric generation facility) due to its extensive use of electrical wires and switches.

[3] Reagan's son Michael, whom he had adopted with his first wife, Jane Wyman, came from boarding school to visit the house on weekends.

[2] Following Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech of 1964, a group of wealthy Republican donors led by Holmes Tuttle visited the house to persuade him to run in the 1966 California gubernatorial election.

He subsequently received the telephone call from Jimmy Carter conceding the presidential election in the living room of the house.

[6][7] The shower door which Reagan stepped through before he received Carter's call to concede the presidential election was preserved in the redevelopment.