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 Biltmore Hotel, now named Millennium Biltmore, was designed in 1923 in a modified Italian Renaissance architecture by architects Schultze & Weaver. It has 1,500 rooms and is 14 stories high. The main address is listed as 506 S. Grand Avenue, but the eastern entrance address is 515 S. Olive Street. Millennium Biltmore Hotel, showing corner of 5th and Grand. A woman strolls past the entrance to the Biltmore Coffee Shop, which occupies a portion of the first floor, and a man can be seen window-shopping on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. Photographic prints
Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Coffee shops--California--Los Angeles Neon signs--California--Los Angeles Show windows--California--Los Angeles Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles Hotels--California--Los Angeles Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultze & Weaver
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