Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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The art deco Pilot News Building is on Michigan Street (State Road 17) in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana. The Pilot News is a newspaper that serves Plymouth and the rest of Marshall County.

Originally a Montgomery Ward store, it opened in 1929. This building replaced an earlier store that had opened in 1926. The 1926 store was Ward's very first retail location; prior to opening the Plymouth store, Montgomery Ward had been a mail-order catalog business only. This store design was used for most of the early Ward's stores.

There is another one, now an antique store, still standing in Van Wert, Ohio. Both the Plymouth and Van Wert buildings have the terra-cotta relief sculpture "Progress Lighting The Way For Commerce" by John Massey Rhind at the top of the front facade.
 
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The Marshall County Trust and Savings Bank building is on the corner of Michigan Street (State Road 17) and LaPorte Street in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana.

The bank closed in 1984 after being bought out by a larger bank. The building today is home to Retro Girl Photos, a photography studio; and Uptown Retro Girl, a childrens clothing shop.
 
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Treat's Bridal Shoppe is on the corner of Michigan Street (State Road 17) and Washington Street in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana.

The sign on the building says: "Treat's For Her." The name is a play on words; Treat is the name of the family that owns the store. They also have a menswear shop in the same building; it is called Treat's Squire Shop.
 
webOSUser said:
Christopher,
I am enjoying your photographs of buildings in the small towns of Indiana.

Thank you for posting them.

Steve W
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Thanks, Steve.

These recent ones are from a trip that I made two weekends ago. I drove across northern Indiana from Fort Wayne to Portage (a small city near Lake Michigan) to attend a friend's wedding. Of course, I used to opportunity to stop in several towns along the way that I normally don't visit because of their distance from home.
 
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Still catching up on my backlog of photographs waiting to be edited. This is the first of four abstract images that I made of the sky above my house on a November evening in 2017.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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They're just beginning to come into my part of the country. Before they were mostly found in the great plains. There are a lot of wind farms in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc. Right now, Indiana only has one or two and they're not close to Fort Wayne. This one in Ohio is in a county (Paulding County, Ohio) that borders the county where Fort Wayne is located (Allen County, Indiana). They're generally not located near large cities or towns.
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We were on a schedule and were already behind when I saw exit signs for Fort Wayne. I didn't even consider stopping, but I did think to myself, "I know of somebody in Fort Wayne."

I was so exhausted on the second half of that trip it all kind of blended together, but I think you're right: I'm pretty sure all the turbines we saw were well west of you.

I hope you can fight your health issues to a standoff at least.

-Ed
 
ebolton said:
We were on a schedule and were already behind when I saw exit signs for Fort Wayne. I didn't even consider stopping, but I did think to myself, "I know of somebody in Fort Wayne."

I was so exhausted on the second half of that trip it all kind of blended together, but I think you're right: I'm pretty sure all the turbines we saw were well west of you.

I hope you can fight your health issues to a standoff at least.

-Ed
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Ed,

If you ever make it by here again, let me know. It would be great to meet a fellow RFFer. No one ever comes to Indiana, lol.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Ed,

If you ever make it by here again, let me know. It would be great to meet a fellow RFFer. No one ever comes to Indiana, lol.
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Oh yeah, for sure. I'd love to do that same trip with 3X more time (at a minimum). It was life-changing. If I can ever make it happen time- and money-wise, I'll give you some notice and try to hook up.

-Ed
 
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The Rees Theatre is on the corner of Michigan Street (State Road 17) and LaPorte Street in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana.

The sign on the theatre's marquee says: "Will you marry me Allie? She said yes!"

Built in 1940, the Rees Theatre closed in 2009. A fundraising effort is underway now, with the goal of renovating and reopening the historic theatre. Many small-town movie theatres have closed in recent years, but a surprising number of them remain open in Indiana's small towns.
 
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The Pleasant Hill Cemetery is on Main Street, just north of US-30, just outside the small town of Bourbon, Indiana.

The road that leads into the cemetery splits to go around the mausoleum of Thomas B. Lee. Lee was a prominent businessman in Bourbon who died in 1909.

An American flag flies from a pole only a few feet in front of the mausoleum's door. A plaque at the base of the flagpole says that it was placed there by the local American Legion post as a memorial to all American war veterans.

The big sign in front of the flagpole says that the cemetery was established in 1893.
 
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Michigan Street (State Road 17) is the "Main Street" in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana.

The neoclassical City Building on the corner of Michigan Street and Garro Street was originally the First National Bank Building; it is now home to Plymouth's town government. Next to the City Building is the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Building. The narrow brick building next to the Chamber of Commerce is the Simons Building.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Michigan Street (State Road 17) is the "Main Street" in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana.

The neoclassical City Building on the corner of Michigan Street and Garro Street was originally the First National Bank Building; it is now home to Plymouth's town government. Next to the City Building is the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Building. The narrow brick building next to the Chamber of Commerce is the Simons Building.
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Ir's good to see buildings from an important era in a town's history repurposed and given new life. I saw a lot of that in Vincennes, IN and there is an increasing trend in that direction here in the mid-Atlantic.
 
ChipMcD said:
Ir's good to see buildings from an important era in a town's history repurposed and given new life. I saw a lot of that in Vincennes, IN and there is an increasing trend in that direction here in the mid-Atlantic.
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I didn't know you were from Indiana. I've never been to Vincennes, a little far from home for me. A lot of the small towns in northern Indiana still have beautiful old buildings, but Plymouth is really extraordinary. So is Kendallville. Fort Wayne has demolished virtually every building from the late 19th Century downtown and replaced them with ugly steel and concrete monstrosities.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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Michigan Street (State Road 17) is the "Main Street" in the small town of Plymouth, Indiana.

The neoclassical City Building on the corner of Michigan Street and Garro Street was originally the First National Bank Building; it is now home to Plymouth's town government. Next to the City Building is the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Building. The narrow brick building next to the Chamber of Commerce is the Simons Building.
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It's always pleasant and interesting to look at your photos from Indiana. Great that these buildings are preserved, where I live to many are demolished (I guess it is cheeper to demolish and build a new one than to preserve).

Just curious, when you say a small town how many hinabutants mirror less do you mean?

Thanks for keeping the good work coming

robert
 
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