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Title: Vacant lot lined with palm trees
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Schultheis, Herman
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1937
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: 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 Hollywood Riviera Beach Club (1931-1958), designed by Mark Daniels, was located at what is now Miramar Park in Torrance Beach. It was designed as a private club for the original Riviera home owners. The beach club was destroyed by fire and the site was recognized as a Historic Landmark with a plaque by the Torrance Historical Society in conjunction with the Redondo Beach Historical Society.
This view of natural scrub covering a vacant lot and a road lined with palm trees captures the Hollywood Riviera Beach Club in the distance against the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The beach club was located on Torrance Beach in Torrance, between Palos Verdes and Redondo Beach.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00097434
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-006-761 8x10
CARL0005068501
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/36775
Subject: Hollywood Riviera Beach Club (Torrance, Calif.)
Vacant lands--California--Torrance
Palms--California--Torrance
Roads--California--Torrance
Private clubs--California--Torrance
Architecture--California--Torrance--Spanish influences
Lost architecture--California--Torrance
Mountains--California, Southern
Torrance (Calif.)
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)
Panoramic views
Landscape photographs
Schultheis Collection photographs
Daniels, Mark,1881-1952
Time Period: 1931-1940

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