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. Skier Sepp Benedikter opened the Pine Needle Ski Slope, located at the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Lankershim Boulevard in Studio City, on June 23, 1939. The club provided year round instruction and practice on a 600 foot hill matted with 3,000 sacks of pine needles. This building has been demolished. View of the dirt sidewalk and the facade of the Pine Needle Ski Slope in Studio City.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Pine Needle Ski Slope (Studio City, Los Angeles, Calif.) Skis and skiing--California--Los Angeles--Societies and clubs Architecture--California--Studio City (Los Angeles)--German influences Lost architecture--California--Studio City (Los Angeles) Studio City (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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