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. Covering 61.1 acres, Brookside Park is Pasadena's largest park and contains the world-famous Rose Bowl Stadium, Brookside Golf Course, and Rose Bowl Aquatics Center, as well as several regulation baseball fields, multi-purpose fields, picnic areas, tennis courts, badminton courts, handball courts, horseshoe courts, archery, casting and lawn bowling facilities, etc., making it Pasadena's largest fully maintained park facility. Brookside Park is located at 360 North Arroyo Boulevard in the city of Pasadena. This four part panoramic view of Brookside Park, Pasadena and Mount Wilson is taken from the Annandale Estates, probably somewhere near the 1500 block of Glen Oaks Boulevard.This image forms the right panel of the series. This view captures the south part of the arroyo where brookside park is, and a view of Pasadena unbroken by the freeways.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Arroyos--California--Pasadena Mountains--California, Southern Parks--California--Pasadena Mount Wilson (Calif.) San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.) Brookside Park (Pasadena, Calif.) Pasadena (Calif.) Panoramic views Schultheis Collection photographs
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