Wells Street in Fort Wayne

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Very nice set, Chris. I've been doing something similar with my current home town of Fort Dodge, Iowa. The town used to be known as "Little Chicago", primarily for its Chicago-style architecture, but also because it was a distribution center for liquor that was smuggled down from Canada and trucked to Chicago during the prohibition era.

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I liked your photos of Ft. Dodge too. It does look like a big city because of the architecture and the relatively tall buildings downtown. I was surprised to google the town and see its population is only 25,000. Fort Wayne is a much bigger city. Wells Street is in the middle of a city of nearly 300,000.

 

[Mister E]

I know all about Greensburg, been through there I'd say close to 1000 times. My parents met there for their custody arrangement. I've lived all over Indiana. My dad's from up north like Chris. Fort Wayne, Peru, Rochester and Chili were his old stomping grounds.

Chris, I think it's interesting to see the Mexican ice cream shop. I'm surprised by the number of hispanics that have settled in Fort Wayne. Definitely not the demographic of 20 years ago. The last time I was in town we chowed down in a spanish only restaurant.

 

[DNG]

The lack of people in these gives them an eerie feeling ... like one of those old low budget science fiction movies from the fifties and sixties with car doors open, engines running, shop doors swinging in the breeze but no one around ... the aliens took them!

😀

I could sit on a bench in Morrisville on some days, and in 20 minutes, I am still alone on the main street... I'm sure many many small towns have similar people traffic 😉, although cars passing by are very common as the only light changes from red to green.

 

[farlymac]

Greensburg has fluctuated in population by no more than 1500 folks over the last few census's. When they built the new Honda plant, I did an aerial survey via the internet to see just how much property they took up, and was surprised to find that it was about the same amount of land that the town occupies!

Things change over time, but the resturant that Francisco refers to is Storie's I believe. It's right on Main St on the southside of the courthouse square. Still in business after all this time. The fare has changed somewhat, but it still has that same old small town feel about it.

I grew up a block and a half from the courthouse, and a block and a half from the cemetary. Can't get much more small town than that.

PF

 

[farlymac]

The coolest thing on Ewing is the old camera store at the corner of Ewing and Washington Blvd!

Let's see, how big of a detour is it from Greensburg to Ft Wayne?

PF

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Greensburg appears to be about 2 or 2.5 hours from Ft. Wayne. That's a guess based on looking at the map, since I've never been there.

 

[farlymac]

Chris,

Yes, it's about three hours to Ft Wayne. But not in the winter.

PF

 

[SolaresLarrave]

You're right, PF! I couldn't recall the name, but I do remember that not that long ago one could have a very nice fried chicken dinner for less than $6.00

 

[apodeictic]

Very Walker Evans style photography. You've got a great eye for those details a lot of us would walk by.