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. Architects Postal and Postal designed the 1938 Spanish Colonial Revival style Verdugo Swim Stadium, which was built as in a new municipal park that included the Civic Auditorium. The building featured a 50-meter straight away qualifying it for racing and an intersecting wading pool. The complex was demolished in 1988 to make way for the parking lot for the auditorium. This Spanish Colonial Revival style Verdugo Swim Stadium in Glendale located across Verdugo from the Glendale Community College. Notice the tall light fixtures that surround the pool on the right side of the building. The swimming pool was considered part of Rossmoyne Village, although not in the boundaries of the original Rossmoyne.
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Image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Verdugo Swim Stadium (Glendale, Calif.) Municipal buildings--California--Glendale Architecture--California--Glendale--Spanish influences Lost architecture--California--Glendale Mountains--California, Southern Verdugo Mountains (Calif.) Glendale (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Postal and Postal
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