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 first Hotel Laguna, located at 425 South Coast Highway, was a wood frame building built in the 1880s and demolished in 1928. The 1930 Mission Revival style Hotel Laguna, built in the same location was included in the Laguna Beach Historic Resources Inventory. This view looking south on Pacific Coast Highway from Park Avenue in Laguna Beach includes businesses on the east side of the street (left) including: Birds Cafe, and on the west side of the street (right) including Shell Gas Station and Hotel Laguna (425 South Coast Highway). A banner is strung across the street for the Festival of the Arts, held July 29 to August 6, 1938.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Shell Union Oil Corporation Birds Cafe (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Hotel Laguna (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Festival of Arts (Laguna Beach, Calif.) Banners--California--Laguna Beach Signs and signboards--California--Laguna Beach Restaurants--California--Laguna Beach Service stations--California--Laguna Beach Hotels--California--Laguna Beach Architecture--California--Laguna Beach--Spanish influences Stores & shops--California--Laguna Beach Central business districts--California--Laguna Beach Automobiles--California--Laguna Beach Streets--California--Laguna Beach Pacific Coast Highway Laguna Beach (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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