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. Architect Carleton Monroe Wilson, Sr. designed the 1925 Chapman Park Hotel, located at 3401 Wilshire Boulevard, owned by Samuel James Chapman. In 1936 Wilson designed bungalows and a chapel called the Pueblo extending the grounds to encompass a full city block. The hotel and pueblo were demolished and replaced by the 1969 Equitable Plaza Office Building.; Architect A. C. Martin designed the1931 Cord Building located at 3443 Wilshire Boulevard, which featured a sandstone and marble exterior and a 30 foot tower. E.L. Cord, owner of a Fuller Motors dealership and producer of Auburn and Cord automobiles, chose his business initials KFAC for a new radio station, and in 1932 the Federal Radio Commission approved a new location for the station and towers in the penthouse of the dealership. In 1945 Packard-Bell moved in and the building was renamed. The building underwent a major remodel in 1949.; Architect Robert H. Orr designed the 1927 Northern Italian Romanesque Wilshire Christian Church, located at 3461 Wilshire Boulevard (also 646 South Normandie Avenue), replacing a smaller bungalow style 1911 church. In 1940, First Christian Church of Los Angeles merged with Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church to become Wilshire Christian Church, which is of the Disciples of Christ denomination. The building, which features a 200-foot tower and rose stained glass window designed by Judson Studios, was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #209 in 1979. This view of Wilshire boulevard looking west from Mariposa is taken from a double decker tour bus. From right to left this view includes: the Pueblo bungalow court of the Chapman Hotel (before the Zephyr Room was built), the Cord Building with KFAC radio towers, and the Wilshire Christian Church.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Wilshire Christian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) Chapman Park Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cord Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) KFAC (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.) Church buildings--California--Los Angeles Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Hotels--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences Radio and television towers--California--Los Angeles Automobile dealers--California--Los Angeles Buses--California--Los Angeles Lampposts--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Lanterns Streets--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Wilson, Carleton Monroe Orr, Robert H AC Martin Partners
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