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Empty Stocking Club
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In the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, manager Fred Reeths is holding Johnny Heitz while he drops a coin into the Empty Stocking Club stocking. Johnny's mother, Virginia Heitz, looks on. A large poster of Santa Claus is in the background.
November 29, 1947
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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