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

Blue Sky ReSewing and RePairing

by Michaela Perkins

Please call the number above if you would like to arrange a time to drop off your mending, or you can email me using the Contact Us page above ...

After mending and altering for family and friends since I was 14, I opened this clothing repair shop a few years ago, when I was at a crossroads and had just been through a real breaking experience with God - I wanted to find something to work on with my hands. In the process, I found restoring old clothes brought rest and fulfillment. God is everything to me, and mending is a way that I can please Him because it shows true love to value the things that are worn and humble and frail because they still have meaning and worth to Him, just like people. And when I surrender everything to God and have nothing of my own, with all of me belonging to Him, then I can see Him as big as the sky right in front of me always.

I enjoy resewing anything and everything. I have more experience with certain kinds of repair jobs than others, but am willing to tackle any new challenge my sewing machine or knitting needles can handle - shoes, sweaters, and some leather, and fabrics of all kinds - the more hopeless, the better!

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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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


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.