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. Robert V. Derrah designed the 1936 Crossroads of the World (6671 Sunset Boulevard) as a Streamline Moderne programmatic office complex, which looked like a ship whose prow was topped with a tall, open tower and lighted globe. In 1974 the complex was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 134. This view looking east on Las Palmas includes the Cross Roads of the World painted sign by the parking lot entrance in the back, houses at 1526, 1528 and 1534 Las Palmas (replaced by a parking lot), and the First Baptist Church, located at 6682 Selma Avenue, Hollywood.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Crossroads of the World (Los Angeles, Calif.) First Baptist Church (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Church buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Baptist church buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Signs and signboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Dwellings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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