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 looking east on Forest Avenue from Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, includes businesses from left to right on the north side of the street including: Swans shoe repairing, and Coverns Bakery (234 Forest Avenue), and on the South side of the street Van de Kamp's Bakery (far right, located at 275 Forest Avenue), Cornet five and dime in the Peacock Building (269 Forest Avenue), the A&P Food Store (301 West First Street, later Glenneyre Street), and the tower and cupola of the Community Presbyterian Church (415 Second Street).
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Community Presbyterian Church (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Peacock Building (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Van de Kamp's Bakery Bakeries--California--Laguna Beach Stores & shops--California--Laguna Beach Church buildings--California--Laguna Beach Presbyterian church buildings--California--Laguna Beach Central business districts--California--Laguna Beach Automobiles--California--Laguna Beach Streets--California--Laguna Beach Signs and signboards--California--Laguna Beach Mountains--California, Southern Forest Avenue (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Laguna Beach (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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