Posts Tagged ‘cats in history’

Announcing New Content: Cats in Hats, Old-Time Cats on the Clock

Posted: 17th November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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As I find myself in a restrictive cast for a few weeks following ankle surgery, I have decided to distract myself from my foot by adding new content to the Hatching Cat. I was originally going to save this “Cats in Hats” project for my retirement years, but writing about old-time cats on the clock […]

1928: Minnie and Miss Frothingham, the Real Cats of the Winter Garden Theatre

Posted: 24th June 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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The Winter Garden Theatre was home to the original Broadway production of Cats from 1982 until the production closed in 2000. But about 50 years before the creepy human cats appeared on stage, the theater was famous for its real cats. Cat mascots, that is.

Virtual “Cat Men of Gotham” Presentation: Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 2 pm

Posted: 18th July 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Uncategorized
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Join me on Tuesday, July 21, at 2 p.m., for a virtual trip back in time to explore the city’s history via amazing stories about fire cats, police cats, theatrical cats, and other fabulous felines that made the news headlines in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

1902-1908: The Chevalier and His Clowder of Cats on Carnegie Hill, Part I

Posted: 14th June 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat Stories
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Alberto Gaston de Bassini, aka the Chevalier, was a man who truly loved and cared about cats. He fed them, bathed them, and sang to them, and named them after heroes and heroines from famous operas.

1911: The Civil Service Cat Of the New York City Tenement House Department

Posted: 9th April 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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A tenement house in New York is any building or part thereof which is occupied as the residence of three families or more living independently of each other and doing their own cooking in the premises. It includes apartment houses, flat houses and all other houses of similar character.” –John J. Murphy, Commissioner of the […]

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