From "Nuestro Pueblo - Los Angeles, City of Romance" Copyright 1940, by Charles H. Owens and Joseph F. Seewerker MR. BONNABEL’S CHICKENS Artists never fail to stop at 610 Ramona Street, San Gabriel.  It is not the house of Ernest Bonnabel that halts them, but the ancient adobe behind his home, a dilapidated and picturesque house which legend dates to 1780. By this local account, Indians built the adobe, under direction of padres from San Gabriel Mission.  If true, then the old house is one of the oldest structures of the region.  Mr. Bonnabel has steadfastly refused all offers for it.  Not because of its apparent age and the mellow traditions clinging to its peeling walls, but because his flock of chickens, his doves and rabbits, shelter there.  It seems to him the perfect place for them.  So long as he raises chickens, no artist with a weakness for the old and quaint will buy the landmark.