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Order Number	00098793
Title	Hollywood breadline
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-008-164 8x10
Date	[ca. 1937]
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm.
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.; 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	C.J. Weyl designed the 1928 Hollywood Brown Derby (1628 North Vine Street) in the Spanish Colonial Revival style The asymmetrical restaurant featured Churrigueresque detailing under the eaves and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributor to the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District in 1985. In 1989 it was demolished after a fire.; Walker & Eisen designed the 1923 Taft Building (1680 North Vine Street/ 6280 West Hollywood Boulevard) in Neo-Renaissance style. The L-shaped 12 story office building of reinforced concrete clad in brick and ornamented with terra cotta was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributor to the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District in 1985. In 1999 it was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #666.
Description	Ethel Schultheis' parents smile at the camera while standing in a line which Schultheis calls a breadline. The Hollywood Brown Derby is in the background on the right, and the Taft building is on the left. Ethel's father, Theodore Wisloh, was born in 1879, and her mother, Marie Flora Wisloh (formerly Eveland), was one year younger than her husband.
Subject	Brown Derby Restaurant (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.). Taft Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.). Restaurants--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Office buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Bread & soup lines--California--Los Angeles. Architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences. Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Vine Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). Group portraits Portrait photographs Schultheis Collection photographs. Weyl, Carl Jules. Walker & Eisen.
Coverage	1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940
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