Fuller Poultry Farms, located at the southeast corner of Fullerfarm and Zelzah, was an unusual tract: opened in 1924 by Percy Francis Fuller (1881-1962), the tract consisted of one acre lots in which buyers could live in the front and raise chickens in the back. (The Valley was rife with chicken colonies in the 1920s: Runnymede was another.) Fuller was a Nova Scotia boy who moved to Seattle around 1899 with his brother Albert to run a dry goods business. He soon relocated to Blaine, WA, on the Canadian border, where he married the former Ruth House (1882-1974) and had three kids: Percy Jr. (later “Jerry”), Merridy, and Dorothy. The family came to L.A. in 1916 and eventually settled in NoHo, but it’s uncertain just how Fuller became “California’s leading poultry authority”, as he claimed in his ads. At any rate, the Depression killed his tract in 1931. It’s not clear how the Fullers got by after that, but they seemed to have had a comfortable middle class life. Percy and Ruth retired to Phoenix in 1954.
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