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. The Grand Central Market is located on the ground floor of the Homer Laughlin Building, which was the fifth building in the U.S. and the first building west of Chicago to use concrete floors. It was originally built in 1897 and expanded in 1905 under architect Harrison Albright's supervision. It also once housed an office for American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Both the Homer Laughlin Building as well as Grand Central Market, which officially opened in 1917, underwent a major renovation in the 1990's and residential units were added at that time. The building is located at 317 S. Broadway in the heart of downtown. Women line up for a grocer who weighs a bag of fruit on the sidewalk in front of Grand Central Market (317 South Broadway). According to a poster "these are Bartlett days" but shoppers might be tempted to pick four avocados for a dime instead. The marquee Million Dollar Theater (307 South Broadway) pokes over an awning further north on the street.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Grand Central Market (Los Angeles, Calif.) Homer Laughlin Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Markets--California--Los Angeles Vendors and purchasers--California--Los Angeles Produce trade--California--Los Angeles Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Albright, Harrison
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