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 Elysian Park landslide, which started near the top of Point Grand View (Buena Vista Peak) as a small crack in the earth and grew to 500-foot fissure over three weeks, culminated on November 26, 1937 when a million and a half tons of loose rock and dirt created a "moving mountain" destroying a 600-foot stretch of Riverside Drive. The Elysian Park landslide has strewn boulders across Riverside Drive. The Froix French Baking Co. at 913 Riverside Drive is seen across the street along with an establishment featuring furnished rooms. Barricades in the distance cut off this portion of the street to traffic, and the utility lines end before the wreckage.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Froix French Baking Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bakeries--California--Los Angeles Boardinghouses--California--Los Angeles Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles Utility poles--California--Los Angeles Barricades--California--Los Angeles Landslides--California--Los Angeles Natural disasters--California--Los Angeles Boulders--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Riverside Drive (Los Angeles, Calif.) Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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