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Title
Courtyard of the Grand Central Air Terminal
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Schultheis, Herman
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1937
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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 Grand Central Air Terminal was designed by Henry L. Gogerty in 1928 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with zig-zag moderne elements. The terminal is a City of Glendale registered landmark. The airport was officially closed on July 15, 1959 and has been replaced with a warehouse district, but the main terminal survives.
A woman in furs and a feathered hat walks through the courtyard of the Grand Central Air Terminal, located at 1310 Air Way in Glendale, past the Cockpit cocktail lounge. A small plane is parked, and a sign announces that a covered walkway is for passengers only.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00097250
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-006-366 8x10
CARL0005067343
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/36735
Subject
Grand Central Airport (Glendale, Calif.)
Cockpit (Restaurant : Glendale, Calif.)
Airplanes--California--Glendale
Propeller-driven aircraft
Airports--California--Glendale
Architecture--California--Glendale--Spanish influences
Courtyards--California--Glendale
Bars (Drinking establishments)--California--Glendale
Restaurants--California--Glendale
Glendale (Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Gogerty, Henry L

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