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Order Number	00072134
Title	Casanova Restaurant, Chateau Marmont, Sunset Blvd.
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-005-501 8x10
Date	Circa 1937
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Notes	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.
Description	View of Sunset Boulevard in the city of West Hollywood. It shows the Casanova Restaurant located at 8383 Sunset Blvd.; offering "Dining & Dancing", it dated back to the 1930s. Several automobiles can be seen driving along the winding road, and numerous homes are nestled on the lush hillside. Upon closer inspection, a large castle-like tower can be seen in the distance (seen in top-center of photo). This might be the famous Chateau Marmont hotel, located at 8221 Sunset Blvd. This great castle on the hill inspired by the architecture of the Loire Valley in France was built in 1927, opened in 1929 as an apartment house, and was changed to a hotel in 1931, becoming the "Hotel to the Stars". Sunset Boulevard is a long winding thoroughfare that begins in downtown Los Angeles and runs westward over 20 miles, ending at the Pacific Ocean near Malibu. The best-known portion of the boulevard is the mile and a half stretch between Hollywood and Beverly Hills, known as "The Sunset Strip".
Subject	Chateau Marmont (Los Angeles, Calif.). Casanova Restaurant (West Hollywood, Calif.). Restaurants--California--West Hollywood. Automobiles--California--West Hollywood. Streets--California--West Hollywood. Hotels--California--West Hollywood. Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.). West Hollywood (Calif.). Schultheis Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection