Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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The Grinch stealing the Christmas lights from a house on Allendale Drive in the Belle Vista neighborhood in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Grinch is the title character of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, a popular children's book by Dr. Suess. The owner of the house told me that he made the hand-painted plywood cutouts of the Grinch and his dog.

 

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Harlan High School was built in 1908 in the small town of Harlan, Indiana. This is the front of the oldest part of the building; it was later expanded with a larger wing on the right side of the building.

The original school looks like a giant version of the one-room schoolhouses most kids attended when it was built, despite being a multi-classroom high school building.

The school was closed in 1965, and the students sent to Woodlan High School in the nearby town of Woodburn, Indiana.

 

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In the evening, near dusk on Christmas Day, I photographed this house on Elmhurst Drive in the neighborhood where I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Hanging in the front window is a cardboard American flag sign that has "God Bless America" written on it.

 

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The flag is inserted in what looks like a desk pad. I wonder if it was originally on a desk, and the person brought it home when he retired and put it in the window. It has been in the window a long time to have faded so much.

 

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The flag is inserted in what looks like a desk pad. I wonder if it was originally on a desk.

I think its actually the packaging it came in. A box. The flag is framed in a thin metal frame. They never took it out of the package to display it!

 

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Graffiti on the side of one of the old barns behind the abandoned house at a farm on the southwest corner of Lower Huntington Road and Coverdale Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana.

"Time Heals Nothing. It Just Replaces Memories."

Above that it says: "Eat." Seems rather out of place, doesn't it?

I have photographed the house, the barns, and the long driveway leading back through the fields to them many times over the last fifteen years. The house was in the process of being demolished when I made this photograph.

 

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This vacant house is on Broadway, next to Laredo Mexican Restaurant, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The old brick house has been painted solid black, except the doors and window frames, for a long time.

Exactly three years before I photographed this house, I photographed another vacant house that sat next to it. That house, though uninhabited, had a sofa sitting on the front porch. It was demolished in late 2015. I hope this house doesn't share its neighbor's fate.

 

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The windows on the side of the black house that I posted a photo of yesterday.

 

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I always thought that it was funny to see generators and other construction equipment suspended from cranes to prevent theft after the workers stop for the day!

This is at the construction site for the new footbridge being built to connect Purdue Fort Wayne and Ivy Tech College in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I posted some photos of the earlier stages of its construction a couple months ago.

 

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[DNG]

Good ones...
Prevents stealing on jobs w/o a place to lock them up....
But, you knew that. 🙂

Pictures with interesting geometry are always cool to look at

 

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Yesterday was very foggy all day in the Fort Wayne area. I, of course, spent a LOT of time out photographing.

This house is on the north side of Lower Huntington Road, just east of Coverdale Road, in rural Allen County, Indiana. It is down the road from the House At The End Of The Long Drive that I have photographed many times over the years.

 

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Another photo from January 21, when it was so foggy here.

This field is on the southeast corner of Lower Huntington Road and Smith Road in rural Allen County, Indiana.

 

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This landscape is on the north side of Lower Huntington Road, just east of Coverdale Road, in rural Allen County, Indiana. It is next to the house in fog I posted a photo of a few days ago.

The trees grow along the top of an embankment around the edge of a limestone quarry.

This is one of the photos I made in the fog last Sunday, January 21.

 

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On Saturday, the company that is going to demolish Elmhurst High School had a sale of things left behind in the school after the school system emptied out the building.

These chalkboards, which still had a part of a lesson written on them, were among the things for sale. I have several more photos from the sale that I'll post soon.

I graduated from Elmhurst in 1994, and my parents did back in the 1960s. My photography teacher there is who encouraged me to go to art school and become a professional artist. The school was closed by Fort Wayne Community Schools in 2010.

 

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This old shed stood behind the now-demolished farmhouse at the end of the long driveway on Lower Huntington Road, just west of Coverdale Road, in rural Allen County, Indiana.

Like many of the buildings on this abandoned farm, this one has some graffiti. There's an upside-down cross, which many teenagers associate with Satanism; and the number 1738. I don't know the meaning of the number.

 

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!738 has to do with some satanic conspiracy which includes the Illuminati. Some funny memes going on about the subject.

 

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!738 has to do with some satanic conspiracy which includes the Illuminati. Some funny memes going on about the subject.

Interesting! Thanks for the info

 

[stevierose]

Nice photos, Chris! Your photos of Fort Wayne would make a great book. Sad to see so many abandoned businesses here in the Midwest where we both live.

Steve Rosenblum

 

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Nice photos, Chris! Your photos of Fort Wayne would make a great book. Sad to see so many abandoned businesses here in the Midwest where we both live.

Steve Rosenblum

Thanks, Steve. I'd love to publish a book some day.