“For almost a generation there was no more secluded or more beautiful section than the vicinity of “Fox Corners.”—New York Daily Tribune, February 28, 1909 (Fox Corners was in Foxhurst, Bronx) In my last post, I wrote about Swain’s performing rats and cats, which once appeared at the old Loew’s Boulevard Theatre near Fox’s Corners […]
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1916: The Rats and Cats That Took to the Stage in Manhattan and the Bronx
Posted: 23rd November 2018 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: Foxhurst, Loew's Boulevard Theatre, New York History, Swain's Rats and Cats, vaudeville
A few years ago I wrote about Tommy Casanova Lamb, the mascot cat of The Lambs club in New York City. Tommy often got into boxing matches with other male cats that tried to encroach on his territory, which is why some of the younger members of The Lambs would say (tongue in cheek) that […]
