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Order Number	00098479
Title	Old west commercial strip and Rio Alto Cafe, San Fernando
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-007-919 8x10
Date	Circa 1937
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 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.
Description	A truck is parked in front of the a barbershop called "Barberia Azteca" on a dirt road in front of a series of wood false front commercial structures popular in the second half of the 19th century and designed to impose a sense of grandeur and continuity to new developments in frontier towns. A brick and stucco building called the Rio Alto Cafe ends the strip. Utility poles lining the street seem incongruent. Schultheis' log call this San Fernando indicating that it might be near the San Fernando Mission.
Subject	Stores & shops--California--San Fernando Valley. Barbershops--California--San Fernando Valley. Restaurants--California--San Fernando Valley. Trucks--California--Los Angeles County. Utility poles--California--San Fernando Valley. Dirt roads--California--San Fernando Valley. San Fernando Valley (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