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. Pop's Willow Lake was a resort along Big Tujunga Wash upstream from today's Hansen Dam, which featured a dance hall and cafe. James A. (Pop) Gautier opened the resort in 1931, but suffered major damage in the 1938 floods. It was rebuilt in the early 1940s, and Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) went on dates there with her first husband while still attending Van Nuys High school. A boat sits on a very shallow part of Pop's Willow Lake in the foreground while three tepees can be seen on the shore in the background, white against the mountains.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Lakes--California--Los Angeles County Tipis--California--Lake View Terrace Boats and boating--California--Lake View Terrace Mountains--California, Southern Pop's Willow Lake (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Tujunga Wash (Calif.) Lake View Terrace (Calif.) San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.) Landscape photographs Panoramic views Schultheis Collection photographs
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