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 Theatre Mart, located at 605 North Juanita Avenue (4049 Clinton Street), opened in 1928. A show called "The Drunkard," originally produced by P.T. Barnum in 1848, played for almost 30 years, from 1933 (the year prohibition ended) until the theater closed in1959. In 1960 the building became home to the Los Angeles Press Club until it was sold to Korean investors in 1988 to convert into a nightclub called Garam. The building is still standing. The Theatre Mart sign is visible on the stairway that leads up a densely planted slope from the Juanita street level to the Spanish Colonial Revival theater.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Theatre Mart (Los Angeles, Calif.) Theaters--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Architecture--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Stairs--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Juanita Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) East Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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