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. This view in Laguna Beach includes the Broiler, located at Ocean Avenue and South Coast Boulevard which may be the same restaurant as the "cafe ocean front patio." The Mallow Drugs and the Smith Hotel and Bath House are also visible. A painter's palette shaped sign attached to a lamppost points the way to the Festival of the Arts held July 29 to August 6, 1938. Everything west of Pacific Coast Highway at this intersection was later demolished for Main Beach Park.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Broiler (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Mallow Drugs (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Smith Hotel and Bath House (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Festival of Arts (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Signs and signboards--California--Laguna Beach Restaurants--California--Laguna Beach Drugstores--California--Laguna Beach Hotels--California--Laguna Beach Architecture--California--Laguna Beach--Spanish influences Stores & shops--California--Laguna Beach Central business districts--California--Laguna Beach Automobiles--California--Laguna Beach Streets--California--Laguna Beach Lost architecture--California--Laguna Beach Pacific Coast Highway Laguna Beach (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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