Worlds Largest Cat (Gone) Jersey City, New Jersey Nineteen feet long... five-hundred pounds... made of fiberglass. Its certainly possible this is not the Worlds Largest Cat, but it deserves notice if you ever find yourself under the Holland Tunnel viaduct west of the Hudson River and Manhattan. According to legend, the cat dates from the 1950s, when it was rolled down Broadway in the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade [see myth-buster below]. It was on the roof of a Jersey City truck stop beginning in 1965; then relocated temporarily to its present site in 1978. The cat is a brown tabby and, depending on the season visited, may be invisible from the street, shielded by a large locust tree that has overgrown the cats garage-top perch. All you can see of the cat from the adjacent rubbish-strewn lot is its face, grinning Cheshire Cat-like -- its eyes round and bulging, a little Christmas stocking cap still perched jauntily on its head -- through the ten-foot-high chain link fence that surrounds the property. The big cat. April 2006: The big cat is looking increasingly tattered, his right eye going a little wonky. According to Cliff, who owns Cliffs Clocks, Cliff claims that reports that the cat was originally a float in the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade are incorrect, and that they prompted at least one angry phone call to him, from an irate former Macys employee, who insisted that Macys never would have paraded something as cheesy as a giant cat with a Santas hat. December 2007: The cat has disappeared!
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:47:59 +0000
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