One of the few memories that mom still has is about the Santa hanging on the wall. Several times this year she has mentioned that she remembers putting him under her coat and walking out of the bank!
Let's see if I can get the story straight! We aren't sure of the year, but sometime between 1948-1952, mom was working graveyard at the bank. This Santa was part of the office decorations. On Christmas Eve, she figured they weren't going to need him any more, so she hid him under her coat and out she went!
He had a prominent place over the fireplace when we lived on Juniette Street in Culver City. Mel looks about 3 months old in this picture, so that make this Christmas, 1954.
He has aged better than most of us, still looking good at 65 year old!!
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