Crazy Cat did not belong to any one human in particular, but rather made the rounds from one tearoom to another, no doubt dining on a few morsels or taking a cat nap near a warm fire in every establishment that would welcome him.
Posts Tagged ‘Cat Stories’
1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part II
Posted: 13th May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 58 Washington Square South, 61 Washington Square South, Cat Stories, Grace Godwin's Garret, House of Genius, Jessie Tarbox Beals, New York History
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1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part I
Posted: 7th May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Don Dickerman, Greenwich Village, Margaret A. Huntington, New York History, Pirate's Cave, Sheridan Square, Will o' the Wisp
You may nearly fall over the black-and-white feline which belongs to no one in any of the buildings, but which haunts them all like an unquiet ghost, and which is known by everyone as the Crazy Cat.
1911: New York’s Buzzer, the Most Photographed Cat in America
Posted: 16th April 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Arnold Genthe, Buzzer the cat, Cat Stories, Charles Thorley, New York History
Among the more than 1,000 images of Arnold Genthe’s photographs in the Library of Congress Collection’s digital library, 82 feature his beloved cat Buzzer.
1912: The Cat Lady of Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, and the Mysterious Thanksgiving Day Fire
Posted: 13th November 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Alphonse Friedrich, Anthony Oreckinto, Brooklyn History, Cat Stories, Hoyt Street, New York History, Octavia Friedrich
In one of a cluster of six shabby little frame houses at Hoyt and Livingston Streets, Brooklyn, stubbornly holding their own there against the huge overshadowing business buildings reared all about them, there lived until yesterday a hermit spinster, Miss Octavia Fredericks. The neighborhood was full of stories of her, many of them purely legendary […]
1886: General Muff, the Sophisticated Literary Cat of New York’s Upper East Side
Posted: 28th August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: 505 Park Avenue, Cat Stories, Henry Clay Overin, Mary Louise Booth, Mineola Garage, New York History, Upper East Side
May it be long before Muff’s gracious personality requires an epitaph, but when that time comes, the following lines will apply to him as fitly as to the one for whom they were written, the poet Whittier’s cat, Bathsheba:“Whereat none said ‘Scat!’Better cat never satOn a mat, or caught a rat,Than this cat. Requiescat!”–Famous Pets […]
