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Title
Westwood Boulevard shops
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 194-
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.
In 1886, Myer Siegel opened his first store at Second and Main in Los Angeles. Designed by architect Allen G. Siple, the Westwood Village store opened in December 1937 and was the fifth store in the chain following Downtown, Pasadena, Wilshire and Beverly Hills. The large glass brick panel above the marquee allowed light to enter the mezzanine, and marble wainscoting flanked the entrance which was paved in travertine. This building is still standing.; The first Desmond's Department Store was opened on Olvera Street in 1862. In 1921, Ralph R. Huesman purchased the store from the Desmond family and led the expansion of the retailer to several locations throughout the Southern California market.; Gordon B. Kaufmann designed Holmby Hall, a complex of six shops.
Westwood Boulevard, looking north toward Weyburn. Myer Siegel and Desmond's department stores are visible on the left of a white building with a large tower, which is identified as Holmby Hall, located at 907 Westwood Boulevard.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00101947
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-011-567 8x10
CARL0005142539
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/36388
Subject
Myer Siegel
Desmond's
Holmby Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stores & shops--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Department stores--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Storefronts--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Palms--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Westwood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Kaufmann, Gordon B

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