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Founded: Jan 31, 2005 7:16 PM
Location: Fords
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Come on in and share your Garden State tales as we piece together our mysterious puzzle. Together we make New Jersey, the best known state for our roadside attractions and death defying distractions. Everyone knows that we spicy up the east coast.


Jersey City, New Jersey



Nineteen feet long... five-hundred pounds... made of fiberglass. It's certainly possible this is not the World's Largest Cat, but it deserves notice if you ever find yourself under the Holland Tunnel viaduct west of the Hudson River and Manhattan.


The cat dates from the 1950s, when it was rolled down Broadway in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. 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 cat's 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.


We've had varying luck getting in close to photograph the cat. On our most recent trip, no one was around to ask permission except for a pair of angry guard dogs. The dogs, the fence, and the cat's invisibility are probably responsible for keeping it intact in this apocalyptic part of New Jersey.

roadsideamerica.com

World's Largest Cat: 400 Seventh St. - Jersey City, NJ - 07306 (this is the closest I could find for Jersey City has a bigillion zipcodes and if this one is not right try changing the last digit to any number from 1 - 9)

Directions: Cliff's Clocks, first house on the left side of 7th St., between Newark Ave. and Division St., just past the Holland Tunnel viaduct that towers overhead.

Hours: Daytime strongly recommended.

Phone: 1-(201)-798-7510
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