Fess “Davy Crockett” Parker’s Palm Springs Home

Posted: February 8, 2023 | Source: wealth-magazine.com

Before “The Mickey Mouse Club,” The Beatles and Farah Fawcett, actor Fess Parker’s role as a real-life frontiersman in Walt Disney’s “Davy Crockett” television series was the first big media star for baby boomers. Kids from LA to Boston were glued to their parents’ TV screens in 1954 when Disney brought the historical figure to life, which led to $300 million in Davy Crockett coonskin cap sales. The iconic hats and the show’s title song “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” would be features at Disneyland for decades, with rebroadcasts and DVD re-releases of the series continuing until 2015. Fess died in 2010 and is buried beneath a headstone sporting an inscription of his signature headwear.

Parker’s longtime Palm Springs home, known as the Fess Parker Estate, has been listed for $1.975 million.