Actual opening date unknown. In its later years the bar was run by Chela Plush.

"A squat, one-story building amid auto body shops and warehouses, [Plush Pony] was a lesbian bar that attracted Mexican and Chicana women with drink specials and Latin grooves." Miranda, C. A. (2017, November 3). Stories of the Plush Pony: Artist Laura Aguilar's portraits capture a lost era at a working-class lesbian bar. Los Angeles Times.

When photographer Laura Aguilar visited the Plush Pony, she encountered a certain lesbian community: working class, non-professional and butch. Setting up a small studio space in the bar, she offered to photograph the women and sell them prints for five dollars. Aguilar later recalled that the women agreed, signed permission forms, and received their prints, often without paying Aguilar. The series Plush Pony (1992) became one of Aguilar’s most popular and collectible series of portraits.

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