Fredolin "Red" Hanisch was a 52-year employee making him the longest-serving employee of the theater.
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Brendon Duffy says he began working there in 1929 when it was still called the Sherman Theater and over his five-decade career did pretty much everything.
He was kind of a handy guy and was very self-taught and so I think they thought they could put him to work doing different things like he was a stagehand, he did props, he knew enough about electrician work that he did some of that, he hung posters...
Duffy says back in the early days when big stars would come to town Red would enjoy the opportunity to meet them.