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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.
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