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The Giant Cat Chair

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Pam’s Pictorama Photo Post – Having had a quick look at the Felix-y postcards yesterday and continuing on something of a summer holiday theme, I offer an equally (if more scarce) alternative – the giant cat chair.  I only learned of the existence of these a couple of years ago and it was thanks to a FB post of a google image.  As chance would have it, I did a search on ebay shortly after and turned up this fellow! As far as I can tell, these only existed in England – although frankly I could be wrong as I have only seen about four or five – I own three of them – the most recently acquired I used to kick off this blog.  (In my mind I have this really great image of Great Britain in the ’20’s and ’30’s as this very jolly place where folks were having their photos taking with giant cat dolls every day of the week – what was wrong with the US?)  These were some lucky children!

If you are feeling overwhelmed with posts to this new blog – I am on vacation and enjoying the opportunity to get things rolling, as well as finding my way technically.  Once I am back at work I am sure things will slow considerably.

Let the Cats Begin!

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Pam photo postcard blog post.  So today I start at square one for me and a pleasant August beach-y theme to suit our vacation mode; folks posing with Felix.  The first one I ever saw was in a wonderful book on the history of Felix that Kim gave me when we first got together.  There is this single amazing image from a museum in Australia, I think (Australia, New Zealand and the UK is where they all seem to originate from – which begs the question – why the heck weren’t they being made here?  Coney Island?  I’ve never seen one taken in the US – anyone?) and man, if you had told me in those pre-eBay days that I would own 40 or so of these I would have figured I had died and gone to heaven!  To even see one in person seemed unlikely – I didn’t even know that they were running around in the world, although I should have suspected.  As you can see from the one in the bottom, this also embraces the too cheap to purchase a real stuffed Felix photo – these are fun too.  People also liked to pose with their own Felix – the same as they liked to pose with their own cats.

Obviously this is a theme I will be returning to – I intend to get the whole collection up over time! There are lots of stories to tell and we’ll get to them all eventually!