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 Grand Central Air Terminal was designed by Henry L. Gogerty in 1928 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with zig-zag moderne elements. The terminal is a City of Glendale registered landmark. The airport was officially closed on July 15, 1959 and has been replaced with a warehouse district, but the main terminal survives. An olive is skewered in a martini glass on the neon sign above the doorway of the Cockpit cocktail lounge in the courtyard of the Grand Central Air Terminal, located at 1310 Air Way in Glendale. A life size cutout of a vaquero leaning against a lamppost, smoking a cigarette and pointing to the lounge, indicates Mexican food was served.
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Image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
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