Original Craig Street Cats
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Say hello to Macarthur (Mickey) and Winston, Craig Street Cats from the 1940’s. They are being held by Mrs. Florence Gray, of 480 Craig Street. Mickey belonged to the Grays, and Winston belonged to the Milans, who lived across the street.
This photo is courtesy of Allan Gray, of Austin, Texas. Dr. Gray emailed me yesterday, with wonderful stories about Craig Street during his family’s tenure at 480.
It seems that Mickey and Winston were not the only cats around at that time. The Cormacks, at 486, had a cat with a rather unusual name. Apparently it used to take young Bruce quite a while to call his cat in, because he would have to say, ” Here Petey, Rowdy, Fingal’s Cave, Cornforth, Lightfoot, Pride of the Pampas, Edward the Flowers, and not for you to pick, Cormack.”
Wolseley had character and characters, even then.
