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. Architect Aubrey St. Clair designed the 1927 Spanish Mediterranean Revival style Isch Building, located at 3335 South Coast Highway. The commercial building built by Laguna pioneer Nick Isch, features a long central arcade and was included in the Laguna Beach Historic Resources Inventory. People gather around a newsstand with a sign which reads "this gate hangs well, and hinders none, refresh and rest, then travel on" in this view looking south on South Coast Highway at the triangular shaped lot between Forest Avenue and Park Avenue in Laguna Beach. Also visible on Pacific Coast Highway are the Birds Cafe (left, later White House Cafe), the arcade of the Shell gas station located in the Isch Building (right) and banner and painter's palette-shaped sign for the Festival of Arts.; See image #00099951 for context.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
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