Finn Frolich made the sculpture of Indy 500 winner Tommy Milton: "Modern Speed", that I posted, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/finn-frolich-architect-and-scuptor-of.html
also made this dairy cow sculpture.
I find it so damn amusing that because I cover stuff like the artist that made the sculpture for race cars, that over a dozen years later, I recognize this dairy sculpture, and know the artist by name.
But... is this even crazier?
The guy that took this photo? Worked on Fantasia. And Pinocchio.
Then died in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later.
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 moved to Los Angeles in 1937, and 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.
If that doesn't convince you that you're getting content right here (now n then) that no one else is putting online for your enjoyment, from the Bantam, to the sculpture, to the photographer of the sculpture, who worked at Disney on Fantasia... then I deserve to be told where you can find better than what I'm doing
In 1915, Rhoda Agatha Rindge, heiress, married Merritt Adamson, ranch foreman, also USC Law school grad and captain of the USC football team.
In 1916 Adamson established the Adohr (Rhoda spelled backwards) dairy business up the hill in the San Fernando Valley.
By the mid-1920’s it was the largest certified dairy in the world. It was well-known for innovative and quality dairy production and for it’s marketing acumen and for it’s famous reddish-golden brown Guernseys.
Sometime in the 1920s the milkmaid and cow sculpture was commissioned for placement at the dairy headquarters.
The Spanish land grant that made up Rancho Malibu was split into three parcels in 1905 after the death of Frederick Hastings Rindge.
In 1916 Rindge's daughter Rhoda and her husband Merritt Adamson Sr. established a dairy farm named Adohr located at 18000 Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana.
The farm was famous for breeding Guernsey cattle. Land was slowly sold during the depression and in 1948 the remaining 500 acres were sold to developers when the dairy farm moved to Camarillo.
The Camarillo farm was sold for the Westview Park subdivision in 1969.
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