Monthly Archives: February 2013


“We had been living in the Dakota, the late nineteenth-century, neo-gothic apartment house at the corner of Seventy-Second Street and Central Park West, for about a year and a half. And while I would later think of the place – the setting for the film “Rosemary’s Baby” and the future and final home of John Lennon – as a glamorous backdrop for my mother’s tumultuous second marriage and divorce, at the time it was just our rather large and wonderfully spooky apartment, in which I was about to find myself awakened by my mother’s rescuers.” 
Chanel Bonfire
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Posted by Wendy Lawless  60s New York, John Lennon, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby, Suicide, The Dakota, Upper West Side

Our beloved Maudie in the kitchen on Park Avenue…

“The elevator man walked by with another suitcase and our cat, Maudie, in her carrier, yowling like an angry baby.  Maudie was a chocolate-point Siamese and always meowed loudly like a person who wouldn’t be ignored.”  Chanel Bonfire

Note the unglamorous, pre-Martha Stewart, surroundings.  Before the 70s, only cooks and children spent any time in Park Avenue kitchens.

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Posted by Wendy Lawless  60s New York, Cats, Chanel Bonfire, chocolate-point Siamese, cooks, Kitchens, Martha Stewart, Park Avenue, Siamese, The Town School