"The Cat and Fiddle chain got its start quite unexpectedly. Reynolds, Tom Evans and Joseph Mehaffey were attending a baseball game in 1948. The game wasn’t too interesting, and the trio began to talk shop. Evans and Mehaffey had been in the wholesale grocery business for about a year while Reynolds has been with the Kroger chain for 13 years, despite his youth. As talk progressed, the idea developed of a retail store related to directly to the wholesale organization. By the time the ninth ending of the game rolled around, plans had shaped up for a new corporation with Reynolds as a head and general manager of the retail store. The location was found soon after the baseball game was over. The first Cat & Fiddle was in operation. The rest is well known history to Danville residents with one success following another."-Danville Register & Bee April 12th 1961.
No longer standing, just memories remain.

Made out of organic cotton
• 100% certified organic cotton 3/1 twill• Fabric weight: 8 oz/yd² (272 g/m²)• Dimensions: 20″ × 14″ × 5″ (50.8 × 35.6 × 12.7 cm)• Capacity: 6 gallf-fabric dual straps• Open main compartment, flat bottomons (23 l)• Weight limit: 30 lbs (13.6 kg)


The Danville Icon Project
Proceeds of this sale go to help House of Hope: an emergency homeless shelter serving the City of Danville, Virginia and the surrounding area. For over 10 years, House of Hope has provided safe refuge to those who don’t have a place to stay.