I'm continuing to scour the vaults, looking for old pictures. Little Nipper of RCA Victor fame sits atop a warehouse on the north side of Albany. This is the biggest of the Little Nippers! It is twenty-five feet high and weighs four tons. The dog was put up there when the warehouse belonged to an RCA Victor electronics distributor. The distributor has long since departed but the owner of the moving and storage company that now owns the building has been taking care of Nipper.
When looking for information about Nipper I noticed several websites that claimed he was put on top of the building back in 1954 "on the [then] tallest building in Albany." That's such a weird claim as there are plenty of taller, much older, buildings in Albany. More correctly, a couple of sites mention that Little Nipper is just a couple of blocks from the classic Miss Albany Diner. This claim is true! I can highly recommend the Miss Albany for lunch (and probably breakfast, although I haven't eaten breakfast there).
Unrelated but not to be missed: GQ interview with William Shatner.
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