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Description
Order Number
00102317
Title
Nighttime
at
Simon's
Drive-In
Restaurant
Photographer
Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID
Herman J Schultheis Collection
Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession
S-001-532
8x10
Date
Circa
193-
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;12
x
12
cm
.
Notes
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
.
Historical Data
In the
1930s
Wayne
McAllister
designed
circular
Simons
Drive-in
Restaurants
in the
Streamline
Moderne
style
with a
three-layer
roof
and
neon
advertising
pylon
.
McAllister
was the
original
designer
of this
style
of
circular
drive-in
,
which
was
copied
throughout
the
country
.
Description
Simon's
,
located
at
5171
Wilshire
Boulevard
,
is
well
lit
for
outside
drive-up
customers
.
Cars
are
parked
all
around
the
round-shaped
restaurant
. The
marquee
advertises
sandwiches
,
hamburgers
,
barbecue
, and
fountain
, and
signs
with
prices
for
food
items
are
hung
in a
line
all
across
the
windowtops
.
Subject
Simon's (Restaurant : Los Angeles, Calif.).
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles).
Drive-in restaurants--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles).
Lost architecture--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles).
Restaurants--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles).
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles.
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park).
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Night photographs
Schultheis Collection photographs.
McAllister, Wayne,1907-2000.
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
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