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.
Century In St. Cloud: Inside and Out Artifacts Around Paramount
ST. CLOUD One of the most iconic images in downtown St. Cloud has to be the marquee outside Paramount Theatre.
Derick Segerstrom is the manager of the Visual Arts Department at the Paramount. He says the marquee we know today was installed in the spring of 1946.
It features a 500 blub canopy and a 456 bulb neon tube fountain. We know that it weighs about three tons because in 1997 they removed the fixture to repair and restore it as part of a major renovation project the entire building went through.
When there are regular shows at the Paramount the sign on the marquee has to be changed regularly, which is still done by hand.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the historic Paramount Theatre in downtown St. Cloud. It was on Christmas Eve in 1921 when the then-called Sherman Theatre opened.