Portrait of Packrat

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is the owner of Packrat's Mini-Flea-Market, a small store on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana that mainly sells old toys. The owner, who says his family calls him Packrat, has the largest collection of Lego sets that I have ever seen. He buys and sells old Lego sets and parts and keeps a personal collection of them. My son loves Lego bricks, and Packrat has a lot of very old and hard to find ones, so we have bought a lot of stuff here! I also have a photograph of the outside of the store.

Shot with an M6 and 28mm ZM Biogon on Tmax 3200 at EI-1600

 

[helen.HH]

wow...Looks like a Wild Fun shop to stumble into
Great !

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

wow...Looks like a Wild Fun shop to stumble into
Great !

You should have seen the basement, where he keeps his collection plus extra stock for sale. He had several hundred complete sets, with boxes, literally millions of loose Lego bricks sorted according to type and color and several thousand of the little people, known as Minifigures, that come with Lego sets. My son was in Heaven and didn't want to leave!

Here's the outside of the store:

 

[Ranchu]

I like it, never a good Idea to judge people by their appearance, I'm an example too! I'm sure your son will remember the lego cache forever.

 

[paulfish4570]

nice portrait, Chris. i think black and white is best even though this man is a fan of very colorful toys ...

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I like it, never a good Idea to judge people by their appearance, I'm an example too! I'm sure your son will remember the lego cache forever.

Yeah, he looks like an old redneck, but he is actually a highly skilled and highly paid technician who sets up and repairs industrial printing equipment, and he is like a big kid with his huge toy collection. A really nice guy. He runs his shop on his days off from his real job, and I think he does it just as a way to build his Lego collection, rather than to make money! People judge each other on appearance way too much.