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 […]
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1921: Minnie, the Feline Mascot of the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn Heights
Posted: 14th July 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Hotel Cats, Hotel St. George, John Middagh, William Tumbridge
The Algonquin Hotel may have had Billy and Rusty the cats, and the Hotel Lincoln may have had Abe the cat, but these male cats could not be mothers. Minnie was not only the mascot of the Hotel St. George, but she was a mother to 160 kittens.
1915: Pussy Suff, the Cheerleading Cat of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association
Posted: 22nd June 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Woman Suffrage, Carrie Chapman Catt, Cats of Old New York, suffrage movement
There is a saying that goes, “Cats rule. Dogs drool.” When it came to picking a side during the women’s suffrage movement in Brooklyn, the cat in this story ruled. She picked the winning side–the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association.
