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. Harrison Gray Otis bought a large, undeveloped plot of hillside land in the late 1800s and called it his outpost. Otis sold the land to Charles E. Toberman, who developed the Spanish Revival style Outpost Estates in the 1920s. He built a 30-foot high red neon sign reading "Outpost" on the hillside above Grumman's Chinese theater to advertise his venture. Today, Outpost Estates covers roughly one and a half square miles and is bordered by Mulholland Drive to the north, Franklin Canyon to the south, Runyon Canyon Park to the west and Cahuenga Boulevard to the east. This view looking northeast towards the Hollywoodland sign is taken from Mulholland and Acapa in the Outpost Estates area of the Hollywood Hills.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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