Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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Two flowers from one of the Rose of Sharon bushes in my front yard lying together on my asphalt driveway. These flowers fall off the bush after they're pollinated, leaving behind the part where the seeds will develop. I photographed them in the morning after a rainy night.

These bushes were planted many years ago by my grandmother, back when this was my grandparents' house.

7-18-22
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:




Two flowers from one of the Rose of Sharon bushes in my front yard lying together on my asphalt driveway. These flowers fall off the bush after they're pollinated, leaving behind the part where the seeds will develop. I photographed them in the morning after a rainy night.

These bushes were planted many years ago by my grandmother, back when this was my grandparents' house.

7-18-22
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Luscious color! Rose of Sharon is one of my favorite plantings. Like many of the old popular garden standards, it seems they've lost popularity, sadly. Perhaps people find them "messy" because they drop their flowers.
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Luscious color! Rose of Sharon is one of my favorite plantings. Like many of the old popular garden standards, it seems they've lost popularity, sadly. Perhaps people find them "messy" because they drop their flowers.
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They are messy, but worth it! I have several of them, some with pink and some with white flowers.
 
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Coney Dog Cafe is a restaurant on Lincoln Highway in the small town of New Haven, Indiana. The gray cinderblock building looks rather drab during the day, but the colorful neon sign in the window was beautiful at night.

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Polaroid photograph of an abandoned bank drive-up teller window on the north end of Charlie Bob's International Plaza, an old shopping center on South Anthony Boulevard, north of Paulding Road, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

I can't remember what bank was here; it closed many years ago.

7-13-22
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:




Coney Dog Cafe is a restaurant on Lincoln Highway in the small town of New Haven, Indiana. The gray cinderblock building looks rather drab during the day, but the colorful neon sign in the window was beautiful at night.

6-29-22
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Wonderfully moody and evocative. And you nailed a very difficult exposure perfectly!
 
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The Rose of Sharon flowers in my front yard are very popular with fat furry bumblebees. During the day, there are usually at least one of them working in these flowers.

These bushes were planted many years ago by my grandmother, back when this was my grandparents' house.

7-21-22
 
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Fallen trees and broken tree branches piled high along the road in front of a house on Arbor Avenue, south of Sandpoint Road, in my neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

This is debris from the derecho, a wind storm with hurricane-force winds that swept across this part of Fort Wayne on the night of June 13, 2022. I made this photograph more than a month after the storm; most of the neighborhood still had big piles of fallen trees out by the road waiting for the city to pick them up.

The house has a low hedge, trimmed to have squared-off sides and top, growing across the front yard along the road. It was completely covered by the storm debris.

6-25-22
 




A Polaroid snapshot of a tree with a sign on it that says "Chainsaws Welcome." It is in the back yard of a house on Arbor Avenue, south of Sandpoint Road, in my neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

A lot of trees in this yard had been broken or uprooted by the derecho, a storm with hurricane-force winds, that hit Fort Wayne on the night of June 13, 2022. Many homeowners in the neighborhood, including the woman who lives here, allowed people who wanted the wood to come and cut up the fallen trees and remove them.

7-8-22
 




Polaroid photograph of Chung King Express, a Chinese take-out restaurant on Vance Avenue, just west of Crescent Avenue, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The little pyramid-shaped building was built in the early 1970s as a branch of People's Trust Bank, a now-defunct locally-owned bank. There used to be a lot of these pyramids scattered around Fort Wayne. There are only four remaining that I know of. None are used as banks anymore.

7-15-22
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
The little pyramid-shaped building was built in the early 1970s as a branch of People's Trust Bank, a now-defunct locally-owned bank. There used to be a lot of these pyramids scattered around Fort Wayne. There are only four remaining that I know of. None are used as banks anymore.
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That is totally cool. Do you have photos of the others?
 
Pál_K said:
Stay well. Best wishes.
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Thanks. I have had health problems all of my life. I started having seizures when I was three years old. When I was in my 20s, I was 5'10" and weighed less than 100 pounds; couldn't gain weight no matter how much I ate. Took a few years to find a doctor who could figure that out. I had a stroke at 37 that left the right side of my body weakened. I'm 46 now. Five years ago, I had a couple of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in my lungs that left them damaged. That's what I'm having issues with now, I feel like I am out of breath all the time and I am constantly tired, and I have been having chest pains and upset stomach again caused by acid reflux.

My health is not going to get better. Ever. I just hope I live long enough to get my life's work completed to the point that I can get a museum to take it all.
 




Polaroid photograph of the abandoned Hillcrest School building on the north side of Tillman Road, between Hanna Street and John Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Hillcrest School opened in 1929 and closed in 1979. When I was a child, it was owned by local photographer Ben Berry. He opened a toy store, called Berry Patch Toys, in the school's gym. After he closed the store, he used part of the school as a portrait photography studio. The Fort Wayne Housing Authority bought the old school a few years ago and will likely demolish it.

The school was designed by the local architecture firm of Goodrich and Griffith. They also designed Elmhurst School, Franklin School, and South Side High School. Hillcrest and Elmhurst were nearly identical to each other. Elmhurst eventually became a high school. It was expanded several times, though the original building was still visible on Elmhurst High's southeast corner.

Fort Wayne Community Schools closed Elmhurst High School in 2010 and the school was demolished in 2018. This leaves Hillcrest as the last remaining school of this design.

7-13-22
 




Polaroid photograph of the Hot & Juicy Turkey Legs food stand at the 2022 Three Rivers Festival in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was oddly large for a carnival food vendor!

The Three Rivers Festival is a 10 day long festival held every year in July at Fort Wayne's Headwaters Park.

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Polaroid photograph of the little white church in the Prairie Grove Cemetery on Old Trail Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it early in the morning when the light was very warm.

Believed to have been built in 1851, this is one of the oldest buildings in Fort Wayne. It was originally a United Brethren Church. In the late 1990s, it was used by a small non-denominational church called Grace Bible Fellowship, but it has been unused since it closed. The cemetery owns the building and maintains it.

in 2008, vandals set fire to the church in the middle of the night. Fortunately, there is a Fort Wayne Fire Department station a block away from the cemetery; and they were able to stop the fire before it caused too much damage.

7-13-22
 
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