Wolinnin Funeral Home
July 24, 2008
Hunter-Gatherer has been mining old episodes of “The Naked City” for vintage New York scenes, and the one above, featuring Jack Klugman and East 7th Street, has a shot with Wolinnin Funeral Home. More madeleine moments. I remember one fall day I developed a craving for apple stack cake. I knew a place on Canal [...]


I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. . . . I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.'