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Title
San Clemente Casino and El Camino Real bell
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 1938
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 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 Strang Brothers contractors built the 1937 San Clemente Casino located at 140 West Avenida Pico. The casino featured a bar, floating, illuminated dance floor, and air-conditioning. The building, which has been home to a private gambling hall, a Moose Lodge, Sebastian's West Dinner Theater, South Hampton Theater and the CHI Institute, was listed on the 2006 City of San Clemente Historic Resources Survey with the recommendation that it was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
An El Camino Real bell stands on the grass in front of the San Clemente Casino.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00100136
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-009-334 8x10
CARL0005110209
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/39506
Subject
San Clemente Casino (San Clemente, Calif.)
Bells--California--San Clemente
Nightclubs--California--San Clemente
Dance halls--California--San Clemente
Architecture--California--San Clemente--Spanish influences
San Clemente (Calif.)
El Camino Real (Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Strang Brothers

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