Oscar Hammerstein had a farm (EIEIO). And on this farm he had a watermill, a windmill, a pond with a bridge and two boats, a few stone houses, a vegetable garden, a donkey, a turkey, a rooster, four hens, a near-sighted monkey, three peanut monkeys, several sheep, 1 duck and 4 ducklings.
Posts Tagged ‘Animal Tales’
1902: The Milch Cow and Farm at Oscar Hammerstein’s on 42nd Street
Posted: 23rd May 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: Animal Tales, Belasco's, New Victory Theater, New York History, Oscar Hammerstein, Paradise Roof Garden, Theatre Republic, Victoria Theatre
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1908: The Lion Cub That Lived at The Plaza Hotel With Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy
Posted: 18th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Feline MascotsTags: Animal Tales, General Daniel E. Sickles, lion cub, New York History, Plaza Hotel, Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, The Plaza
Once upon a time – June 1908, to be exact – an eccentric pseudo-princess portrait painter named Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy came to New York City, where she lived at the Plaza Hotel with a menagerie of wild animals.
1935: Paddy Reilly, the Irish Terrier Host of New York’s Animal Christmas Party
Posted: 20th December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: 313 East 58th Street, Alice Manchester, Animal Tales, Greenwich Village Humane League, Humane Society of New York, New York History, Paddy Reilly
In previous posts, I wrote about the reindeer on display at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 1944, and about the horses that delivered the first public Christmas tree to Madison Square Park in 1912. In this story, I’m going to tell you about Paddy Reilly and the annual Christmas tree and party for New […]
1941: The Reindeer That Flew to Rockefeller Center for Christmas
Posted: 2nd December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: Animal Tales, Bronx Zoo, Christmas tree, New York History, Reindeer, Rockefeller Center
The following reindeer story took place on December 12, 1941, just 10 years after the Christmas tree made its unofficial debut at Rockefeller Center — and exactly five days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This year would be the last that the Christmas tree was illuminated during World War II. From 1942 to 1944, […]
