Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-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. n September 20 and 21, 1883, the first State Convention was called and the WCTU of Southern California was organized at the First Presbyterian Church, 2nd and Fort (now Broadway) Streets, Los Angeles. This temple was dedicated in 1889 after money had been donated for its construction in 1886. The Frances E. Willard Home For Girls was housed on the 4th floor from its inception in 1919 until 1933, when the Long Beach Earthquake severely damaged the building. The County of Los Angeles took the site by eminent domain and constructed a power plant where the venerable Temperance Temple once stood in 1947. This entire block (from Broadway all the way to Grand between Temple and Aliso) was demolished around 1950 for parking lots, possibly used as a staging area when the 101 Freeway was built. This view of the corner of Broadway and Temple captures the Women's Christian Temperance Building, located at 301 North Broadway, as well as streetcar tracks, a drug store and a neighboring cafe. Signage covers the WCTU including banners over the windows which proclaim "Prohibition best method against liquor traffic" and a very faded billboard that reads "Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink" and "Repealed? Never!" Prohibition was enacted in 1919 and repealed in 1933. Riley's City Drug Company also has interesting signs for Sunfreze ice cream, Alka Selzer and Coca Cola.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Temperance Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.) Riley's City Drug Company (Los Angeles, Calif.) Billboards--California--Los Angeles Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles--Societies and clubs Temperance--United States--Societies, etc Drugstores--California--Los Angeles Restaurants--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.) Temple Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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