Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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Here's the last photo I made of the farmhouse and barns on US-24 just outside New Haven, Indiana.

 

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These barns are on the west side of Schwartz Road, south of Witmer Road, in northeast Allen County, Indiana. The blue boxes on the ground in front of the white one are drawers from a desk that the owners are repainting.

I photographed it back in May. I'm still working through my backlog of old work that I haven't gotten edited yet!

 

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An old sofa sits under the front windows of a house on the corner of Oneida Street and Tennessee Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is a pretty common sight in Fort Wayne's working-class neighborhoods.

 

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This little tree grows on the edge of the parking lot beside Northwood Middle School on Washington Center Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

The sky was clear, but the ground was foggy on the morning I photographed it. I had only a few minutes before the warmth of the sun drove away the fog!​

 

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I first photographed Paleteria La Michoacana in black and white back in 2010. I made this color photograph of it last Friday morning.

It is a Mexican ice cream shop on Wells Street, across from Hyde Brothers Books, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. La Michoacana is a brand of Mexican-made ice cream.

 

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The American flag above the garage door of this house is made of wooden fence boards. I have seen a lot of wooden flags on display in northeast Indiana that were made like this one. This one of on South Circle Drive in the small town of Churubusco, Indiana.

I photographed it last Tuesday evening.

 

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I posted another photo of this a while back, but just scanned this one, taken a couple minutes after the first one.

 

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Johnson Brothers Signs is on State Road 5 in the small town of South Whitley, Indiana. I photographed it last Saturday, a rainy fall afternoon.

 

[kbg32]

Always a pleasure Chris....

 

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Always a pleasure Chris....

Thanks, Keith. Here's another photo from South Whitley:

These old gas pumps and fuel tanks are at Myers Deli-Mart, a gas station on State Road 14 on the southeast side of the small town of South Whitley, Indiana.​

These gas pumps are a type that was common when I was a young boy in the 1980s. All of them here have "Out Of Order" signs on them, except the one on the right, which dispenses diesel fuel.​

It was raining lightly when I photographed them.​

 

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Here's another photograph of Johnson Brothers Signs in South Whitley, Indiana. I thought that the wording of the sign, "Neon Electric Sign Manufacturers," was strangely funny and anachronistic. Aren't ALL neon signs electric?

 

[Tonkatsu-Dog]

Another one of Mack, made just after the one I posted earlier.

We are almost the same age and your son is on the verge of becoming an grown man whilst my daughter was just born last year!

Anyway - thats a great portrait and also a very nice thread going on here.

 

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Sunday evening, we went to Magic Wand, a restaurant in Churubusco, Indiana, for dinner. I photographed the front of the restaurant, where people line up for ice cream during the summer.

 

[JoeV]

I found this Chevrolet pickup truck in the parking lot of a grocery store in the small town of Churubusco, Indiana. I've seen a lot of pickups in 2015 that have full size American flags flying from the back of them.

This is such a great image, Chris. Reminds me of people that live in our neighborhood, who park their large, dual-wheeled pickup in their front yard. The truck used to sport a confederate flag and American flag, until the controversy earlier this year. They then took down the confederate flag and now fly a POW/MIA flag, a Marine Corps flag and the American flag. This pickup culture seems to be common, thank you for documenting part of it.

~Joe

 

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I found this house on Elnora Drive, just northeast of the intersection of Washington Center Road and Coldwater Road, on the north side of Fort Wayne, Indiana.​

When I knocked on the door to ask permission to photograph the shed behind the house, an Asian kid answered the door and told me that his parents didn't speak English, but it was ok for my to photograph it. They were renovating the house, which is why there are piles of wood in the yard.​

 

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This is such a great image, Chris. Reminds me of people that live in our neighborhood, who park their large, dual-wheeled pickup in their front yard. The truck used to sport a confederate flag and American flag, until the controversy earlier this year. They then took down the confederate flag and now fly a POW/MIA flag, a Marine Corps flag and the American flag. This pickup culture seems to be common, thank you for documenting part of it.

~Joe

Thanks, Joe.

I've been seeing more and more of this here, too. The best one I ever saw was a few years ago. An old beat-up 4x4 jacked up really high like a monster truck. The back corners of the bed each had wooden poles mounted that held a huge confederate flag stretched between them. The flag had "REDNECK" written across it! I didn't get a photo of it because I didn't have a camera with me when I saw it. I carry a camera EVERYWHERE I go now!

 

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I first photographed this tree a couple of weeks earlier, on a foggy morning with the sun shining through the haze. I made this photograph on another foggy morning, this time with no sun, since the sky was cloudy.​

This little tree grows on the edge of the parking lot beside Northwood Middle School on Washington Center Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana.


Here's the older photo of it:

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[kbg32]

Always poetic Chris, and as always, close to the heart. Even the heart of the "heartland"....

 

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This is the door-buzzer on the side entrance to the middle school where I teach. I thought that the little graffiti smiley face was interesting. Students often vandalize school buildings, but they don't usually do it to express happiness!

 

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This sign sat for several weeks in front of Elmhurst Church Of The Nazarene on Sandpoint Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The church is down the street from my house, in the neighborhood where I grew up.​

The sign says; "Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave."​