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. W & J Sloane moved from their original Los Angeles location at 644 South Broadway after the completion of their five story Moderne building designed by Donald Parkinson (9536 Wilshire Boulevard) which opened in 1936. By 1949, Sloane's had expanded to include the Moderne building designed by Paul Williams at 9560 Wilshire Boulevard. This building has been listed on a Beverly Hills historic survey as a contributor to the Wilshire Boulevard Speciality Stores thematic grouping. In this view of Rodeo Drive looking south from Wilshire, a 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Phaetonis is parked next to the diamond patterned sidewalk of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, and across the street the Art Deco windows of the W. & J. Sloane furniture store can be seen. Further south, at what is now 133 South Rodeo Drive, cars are parked in front of a Spanish style complex that has since been demolished.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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