Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This abandoned storefront on West Main Street in Fort Wayne has been been boarded up like this as long as I can remember. I wonder what kind of store operated here a century ago? The building was painted a depressing gray while I was in Santa Fe. I like it better in white. I made this photo in 2001.

 

[--s]

you´re bringing together local and personal history and photography in a super interesting way. love your thread!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

you´re bringing together local and personal history and photography in a super interesting way. love your thread!

Thanks. 🙂

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another from my archives. I made this photograph of the old 1851 church in the Prairie Grove Cemetery in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne back in 2001. The chimney was a later addition, and it was removed when the building was restored to its original 1851 condition a few years ago.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The abandoned Sears store at Southtown Mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Photographed in August, 2003, a year before Southtown was demolished in 2004. A Walmart store and a Menard's home improvement store now occupy the old Southtown Mall site.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Finally shot something new, been pretty busy the last couple weeks. This is the same farmer's drive that I shot last fall in a heavy fog. I shot this one Saturday.

Here's the fog photo from last fall:

 

[jsrockit]

Fog photo is beautiful Chris.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This was the old Maloley's Grocery Store building at the corner of Lower Huntington Road and Old Trail Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne. Maloley's went out of business when I was a child, and this location later became a Walgreen's drug store, as did the former Maloley's stores on Creighton Avenue and Sherman Boulevard.

In the 1990s, Walgreen's moved the Waynedale store to a new building down the street. The old building briefly housed a flea market called Shopper's World. After it closed, part of the building was demolished as part of a renovation of the property.

This door was originally inside the building, but it was on the side after the room it led to was demolished. What was left of the building was remodeled into a modern office and retail building, and it is now home to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office.

I photographed it back in 2003, and finally added it to my website today.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I found this torn up, moldy, old telephone book on the front steps of an abandoned house in Dunfee, Indiana. It was on the Whitley County side of West County Line Road (CR 800E), next to Grover Schinbeckler's house. It has since been demolished. I shot it in August, 2003.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This tire swing hangs fron a lone tree behind Custom Truck, Inc. on Indianapolis Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. The business's owners live in a house next to the shop.

This place is right across the street from the farm with the long tree-lined drive that I photographed in the fog several months ago. I made this photograph last Wednesday.

 

[helen.HH]

Great to see 'the Farmers Drive'
both versions are Splendid...Atmospheric !

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Great to see 'the Farmers Drive'
both versions are Splendid...Atmospheric !

Thanks Helen. I love going back to the same places over and over through the years and in different seasons to see how they change.

 

[jsrockit]

Another great one Chris.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Here's another one of the tire swing.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This tank trailer sits at the foot of the gigantic mountain of overburden from the Hanson Limestone Quarry on Ardmore Avenue in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne. Several years ago, The Waynedale News christened the pile of dirt and stone "Mount Waynedale."

I photographed it last weekend.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Saturday afternoon, I drive down to Muncie, Indiana, and bought a used Mamiya 6MF with 75mm lens from Jack's Camera. I've wanted one of these since I was a teenager, and finally had the money to get one. The lens is INCREDIBLY sharp, better than the 80mm CF-Planar on my Hasselblad, and I can handhold this camera. I'm actually thinking of selling my Hassy kit and buying the other two Mamiya 6 lenses.

Here's my first photo from it.

This beautiful wicker swing hangs from a tree in front of the barn at the Horney Robinson farm on Lower Huntington Road, west of Coverdale Road, in rural Allen County, Indiana. The barn was built in 1845, according to the woman who now owns it.

 

[Kenj8246]

Wonderful shot, Chris. I've been wanting a Mamiya 6 myself but the prices are daunting, to say the very least. Oh well...

Kenny

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Wonderful shot, Chris. I've been wanting a Mamiya 6 myself but the prices are daunting, to say the very least. Oh well...

Kenny

Compared to a Leica M6, the Mamiya 6 was cheap. It cost about the same as a nice Hasselblad with 80mm lens and one back, but Mamiya's other lenses are A LOT less than Hasselblad lenses are.

 

[v_roma]

Lots of great photos since I last checked in, Chris!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This tire swing hangs fron a lone tree behind Custom Truck, Inc. on Indianapolis Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. The business's owners live in a house next to the shop.

I photographed it the first time after a heavy snowfall about a week before I made this one. The snow was gone this time, but the day was very foggy with a drizzle of rain.

I made this photo a couple days ago.