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Order Number	00101341
Title	Catalina Casino ballroom
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-010-655 8x10
Date	Circa 1938
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.
Historical Data	545 In 1920, William Wrigley Jr. and David M. Renton built the Sugarloaf Casino to serve as an entertainment and gathering place for Catalina Island's visitors, but the venue proved too small, and was demolished in 1928. Architects Sumner A. Spaulding and William Webber built the 1929 Catalina Casino, also known as Avalon Casino Ballroom, on the same spot in the Moorish Alhambra style with Art Deco fixtures, furnishings and artwork, and included a grand ballroom and movie theater. The Santa Catalina Island Company which has operated most of the island's lodging, dining and tour options for over 116 years, began a complete restoration in 2009.
Description	People sit in permanent rows of theater seats set up around the edge of the Catalina Casino ballroom. The wooden dance floor is empty under the scalloped ceiling.
Subject	Catalina Casino. Ballrooms--California--Avalon. Audiences--California--Avalon. Art deco (Architecture)--California--Avalon. Dance floors--California--Avalon. Avalon (Calif.). Santa Catalina Island (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