The Cats, a local institution for 40 years, is not just planning to close, as the Mercury News and others reported Thursday--it's closed. No nostalgic final meal; no reprieve of the sort that the store called Twig gave the community last year.
The Ogilvie family, which owns Poet's Canyon, the Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field estate, and the town's signature cat statues, has also owned The Cats restaurant at least since 1967. Matriarch Diane Ogilvie's daughter, Terrie Christiansen, 58, has been operating the restaurant and it is her decision to close it.
"We all get to retire," Christiansen told the Mercury News' Connie Skipitares. The restaurant, at 17533 Santa Cruz Highway, is for sale, expected to fetch $1.69 million. For more information, contact Jim Miller at 348-3443.
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