Typewritten document describing photographs of Eugene R. Plummer and home, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Typewritten document describing photographs of Eugene R. Plummer and home, 1927

Creator

Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966

Date Created

1927

Date

1927

Language

English

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Eugene R. Plummer and his family once owned sections of Los Angeles including the Hancock Park area, mid-Wilshire, Hollywood Hills, and West Hollywood. The site of his home was purchased by the County of Los Angeles in 1937 and is known as Plummer Park, West Hollywood.

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2361 - 2362 - 2 [sleeve torn, text missing] Eugene R. Plu [sleeve torn, text missing] Hollywood, Thomas Workman Temple. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. Col. Eugene R. Plummer, Hollywood's oldest settler, showing him with 1- On horseback with women members of family, descendents [sic] of Spanish pioneers 2- With guitar and Indian relics 3- Ranch windmill and patio of home. El Rey de la Vaqueros, Aug 1927
Text: Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif.Eugene R. Plummer, “Colonel Plummer” as he is affectionately known to his thousands of friends, Hollywood’s oldest settler (he has never worked in motion pictures), lives on his tiny rancho and entertains after the manner of the old Spanish-Mexican dons with fiestas, music and dancing – parties wholly unlike those indulged in by the movie colony at the Brown Derby, the Ambassador, Bandstatter’s Montmarte, the Roosevelt and other hotels and cafes. Most of the original town site of Hollywood came out of Mr. Plummer’s land holdings, the Rancho La Brea, a square league of 444.4 acres, granted in 1828 by Governor Echeandia, one of the early executives of the Mexican regime in Alta California. The La Brea bitumen springs, in which the world-famous mastodons’ and saber-toothed tigers’ bones were found during the present century were part of the grant. Gradually Mr. Plummer’s acres have shrunk until his present homestead totals some five acres, but those five acres are crowded with tall eucalypti trees which afford cool shade over the horse barn and corral, the open air kitchen and dining room where fiestas are held, and the patio of his home. Annually the Vaquero Club, composed of old families, meets at Mr. Plummer’s place where the day is spent in barbeque, song, dance and general jollification after the old Spanish-Mexican style. Mr. Plummer’s father was an English Sea Captain, while his mother was Dona Cecilia Pacheco, member of an old California family. At a recent gathering of the Vaquero club Mr. Plummer’ was named “El Rey de la Vaqueros” – The King of the Vaqueros.

Physical Description

Extent

1 p.

Keywords

Genre

typescripts

Names

Plummer, Eugenio Raphael, 1852-1943
Eugene R. Plummer residence (West Hollywood, Calif.)

Location

California--Los Angeles--Hollywood

Resource type

still image

Subjects

People