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. Many workers take on different tasks in this image of a Pacific Electric construction project on Santa Monica Boulevard near Highland. Some men jackhammer while others shovel. In front of the Pacific Electric car on the left one man lifts a bar from the rails, while another man on the far right is standing waist deep in a trench. Businesses along the street that are visible include I O Hodges Auto Repair (6861 Santa Monica Boulevard) and Bireley's Inc., makers of fine orangeade (1127 North Mansfield). A Bireley's truck can be seen on the far right. Men watch from a bench next to an advertisement promising 1935 prices in spite of rises in meat, potatoes and rent.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
I O Hodges Auto Repair (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bireley's Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Electric Railway Company--Employees Street-railroads--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Design and construction Railroad construction workers--California--Los Angeles Jackhammers--California--Los Angeles Benches--California--Los Angeles Billboards--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles--Maintenance and repair Soft drink industry--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Santa Monica Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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