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. The Lodge opened in 1923, as the Tudor Revival style Arlington Lodge, adjacent to the old Lake Arrowhead Village. Later known as the Lake Arrowhead Lodge, the building was torn down in December of 1976, and the site is now the Lake Arrowhead Resort. This Foster and Kleiser billboard for The Lodge at Lake Arrowhead advertises winter sports. Cafe 12-12 is visible in the background, but the location is unknown.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Lake Arrowhead Lodge (Lake Arrowhead, Calif.) Cafe 12-12 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Winter sports--California--Lake Arrowhead Billboards--California--Los Angeles Restaurants--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Schultheis Collection photographs Foster and Kleiser Company
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