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. Glendale Junior College was founded in 1927 and operated out of Glendale Union High School at Broadway and Verdugo for two years, before moving to the Harvard School. In 1937 the current campus 1500 North Verdugo Road was completed. The school became part of the Glendale Junior College District in 1970, which became the Glendale Community College District in 1971.; Architects Postal and Postal designed the 1938 Spanish Colonial Revival style Verdugo Swim Stadium was built as in a new municipal park which included the Civic Auditorium. The building featured a 50-meter straight away, qualifying it for racing, and a intersecting wading pool. The complex was demolished in 1988 to make way for the parking lot for the auditorium. People walk around the circular wading pool towards the rectangular deep end of this community pool in Glendale located across the street from the new Glendale Community College buildings on Verdugo Road (visible on the hill).
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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