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 56-ft. wide, 1,370-ft. concrete arch Glendale-Hyperion Bridge was designed by Merrill Butler and completed in 1929; it was originally named the Victory Memorial Bridge, in honor of the men who had served in World War I. It crosses over the Los Angeles River, Riverside Drive, between Ettrick Street and Glenfeliz Boulevard, and since the 1950s, the Golden State Freeway. It is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #164. A neon sign for Victor McLaglen's Sports Center (3231 Hyperion Avenue) is attached to a utility pole. The Glendale/Hyperion Bridge is visible in the background as well as a barrel vaulted roof building which is for lease.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Victor McLaglen's Sports Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) Neon signs--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles) Utility poles--California--Los Angeles Bridges--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Glendale-Hyperion Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.) Atwater Village (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Butler, Merrill
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