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Title: Biltmore Beach Club and Coral Casino, Santa Barbara
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Schultheis, Herman
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1937
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the min-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features "Fantasia" and "Pinocchio." His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for "Fantasia," is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937.
Designed by Gardner A. Dailey, the Biltmore Beach Club and Coral Casino at 1281 Channel Drive opened on July 24, 1937.
Looking towards the Biltmore Beach Club and Coral Casino (later Coral Casino Beach & Cabana Club) from the driveway of the Biltmore Hotel, located at 1260 Channel Drive in Santa Barbara.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00097336
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-006-599 8x10
CARL0005163964
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/36573
Subject: Coral Casino Beach & Cabana Club (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Four Seasons Biltmore (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Private clubs--California--Santa Barbara
Driveways--California--Santa Barbara
Hotels--California--Santa Barbara
Trees--California--Santa Barbara
Shrubs--California--Santa Barbara
Automobiles--California--Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Dailey, Gardner A.,1895-1967

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