1515 Broadway Scottsbluff

The Cat's Meow Building

Due to Family Illness, Our Hours are Flexible and Spontaneous - so Please Feel Free to Call or Email Ahead to find a time that fits your schedule.

1515 Broadway Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69361

308-632-6495

Business Hours: Flexible and Varied
The History

The Family of Businesses in 1515 Broadway

Michaela's Mending & Matchwork

by Michaela Perkins

I love to sew and knit. And my family is full of many women who have been expert seamstresses and loved the art of crafting fabric. But my family also has many men who have been gifted mechanics and electricans. And so mending and repairing clothes is my favorite part of sewing, as it is the perfect mixutre of those skillsets, where you are taking fabric that is worn and useless and finding ways to ease the tension on the mechanics of the fabric and rebuild, repair, and strengthen it into a functional, longlasting garment.

After mending and altering for family and friends since I was 14, I recently had the opportunity to try it as a wider business. I have more experience with certain kinds of repair jobs than others, particularly sweaters, but am willing to tackle any new challenge - including shoes or anything with fabric - the more hopeless, the better!

Perkins Genealogy Service

by Miner Perkins

Interested in Digitizing Your Priceless Family Negatives and Slides or Finding Lost Birth Parents and Grandparents? I Have Digitized Over 2,000 Slides and 3,000 Negatives and Have Helped Many People Find Lost Birth Parents and Birth Grandparents with DNA Proof.
Scan Your Negatives and Slides Find Your Birth Family

Art of Light and Motion

by John Perkins

3D animation, sculpting, building, and design work for a wide range and variety of applications from illustrations and 3D printable figures to visual, interactive manuals and 3D renderings of buildings for design and construction.

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The Vintage Cat's Meow!

From 1967 to 1989, Bunni and Stan Slater ran the iconic and much-beloved store, The Cat's Meow! in 1515 Broadway. And we have gathered a small mini shop of vintage items from The Cat's Meow as a fun way to remember and reminisce about the amazing and life-changing store that was The Cat's Meow!

Your Kitbag

In 1951, Stan Slater and his brother Don Slater and their cousin Bob Skanadore were drafted into the US Army to fight in the Korean War.

Stan was a young man and had never been away from home before and recalls how frightened and homesick he felt that first night in the Fort Belvoir Barracks. He served as a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Corps of Engineers and become a photolithographer assigned to the 8210th Army Unit at X Corps Headquarters in Kondari, Korea. He would observe the front lines by ground and air to take photographs that he and his unit then turned into maps of enemy positions.

Don was already a married man and a kind and loving eldest brother. He served as.a Corpral in the US Army Supply Corps and became a driver assigned to the front lines. He serviced and drove the supply trucks back and forth to supply the front lines.

Bob completed his basic training at Camp Crowder and served as a Private in the US Army. He was sent to the front lines and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for wounds received from mortar fire in October of 1952 while stationed at the Heartbreak Ridge Battleground.




In the midst of the Korean War, Stan Slater received permission to arrange for he and his brother to visit their cousin at Heartbreak Ridge in the summer of 1952. Bob is on the left, next to Don who is next to Stan.

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag. And smile, smile, smile.

Don’t let your joy and laughter hit a snag. Smile, boys, that’s the style.

What’s the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag. And smile, smile, smile.

Pack Up Your Troubles by George and Felix Powell, 1915

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in or steal because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ... For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink and do not be worried about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ... And who of you by being worried can add even an hour to your life? ... Greater love has no man than this - that he lay down his life for his friend. ... By this we know what love is, that Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Instead fear the one who can destroy both the body and the soul. Are two sparrows not sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them fall from the ground apart from the will of the Father. And even the hairs of your head are numbered. So do not be afraid - you are worth more than many sparrows.