Christopher Crawford

May 18, 2012

The Doll House #78

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,The Doll House — Christopher Crawford @ 1:43 am

This “Professional Model” slingshot was in the backyard of the abandoned house full of old dolls.

A child's wooden toy slingshot in the grass in the backyard of an abandoned house. The label on the slingshot says that is a professional model.

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May 17, 2012

The Doll House #77

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne,The Doll House — Christopher Crawford @ 6:52 pm

A group of old broken dolls sit together on the roof of an abandoned house. There is a Cricket Doll, a Cabbage Patch Kid, a headless baby doll, and a clown doll.

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The Doll House #76

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne,The Doll House — Christopher Crawford @ 1:40 am

Another one from The Doll House.

A clown doll sits alone on the front porch of an abandoned house.

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May 16, 2012

The Doll House #75

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne,The Doll House — Christopher Crawford @ 10:52 pm

I am finally scanning the last group of photographs from the Doll House, an abandoned house full of old dolls that I found outside Fort Wayne.

A Santa Claus doll and a headless baby doll surrounded by torn-up carpet and debris on the floor of an abandoned house. A portrait of a little girl named Jessica Rose Shuster is stuck in the pile of trash near the Santa doll.

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May 14, 2012

The Cool Bus

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne,Waynedale — Christopher Crawford @ 4:57 pm

I found this former “Short Bus” school bus, transformed into the “Cool Bus”, in front of Waynedale Auto Repair at the corner of Old Trail Road and Lower Huntington Road in Fort Wayne.

The text on the side of the bus says; “Peace Love and Intergalactic Harpiness.” That’s Harpiness, not Happiness! There is a harp painted on the side of the bus, as well as a UFO and the planet Saturn. The painted sign on the back gives the bus its name. I have no clue what it all means!

Update: Julia Meek, host of Meet the Music on Northeast Indiana Public Radio, has informed me that the Cool Bus belongs to musicians Dan Dickerson and Mikila Cook. Dan plays the harp.

An old short bus painted with psychedelic designs and pictures of planets and UFOs. The sign on the bus says that it is the Cool Bus.

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May 11, 2012

Tasty Pizza

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne — Christopher Crawford @ 2:31 am

This little carry-out pizza place is on Fairfield Avenue in Fort Wayne’s south side. I have always thought it looked interesting late at night.

A customer and an employee can be seen through the windows at the front of Tasty Pizza, a small carry-out pizza restaurant on the south side of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Photographed late at night.

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May 9, 2012

Sunrise Over An Indiana Farm #3

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana — Christopher Crawford @ 2:10 am

Fog envelops a line of trees dividing two farms on the southern edge of Allen County, Indiana. See the next photograph from this place; The sunrise over the field.

This field is behind Saint Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on Thiele Road. I photographed it on the morning of May 1.

A line of trees veiled in fog on the edge of a farm in rural Allen County, Indiana.

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May 8, 2012

Wabash and Erie Canal

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne — Christopher Crawford @ 6:39 am

This is one of the surviving portions of the old Wabash and Erie Canal, which once connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River. The canal, which opened in 1843, allowed boats to travel from the great lakes to the Ohio River and the Mississippi. When Railroads made the old canal obsolete, the tracks were built on the canal’s towpath in the Fort Wayne area, and most parts of the canal in Allen County were drained and buried in 1870.

This section of the canal is in southwest Allen County, Indiana. It connected the Maumee River in Fort Wayne to the Wabash River in Huntington. I photographed it looking west from Ellison Road, which crosses the canal south of US-24. I also made a photograph of the big turtle-shaped rock that sits between the railroad tracks and the canal.

A section of the Wabash and Erie Canal that has survived in southwest Allen County, Indiana.

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The Turtle

Filed under: Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne — Christopher Crawford @ 12:58 am

My grandparents lived on Ellison Road in rural southwest Allen County, Indiana. When we drove to grandpa’s house when I was a kid, we would look for the Turtle Rock next to the railroad track that crosses Ellison Road. This gigantic rock has stood by the tracks for decades. My father says it was there when he was a kid. It probably fell off of a railroad car decades ago.

The stream next to the tracks is one of the surviving portions of the old Wabash-Erie Canal, which once connected Fort Wayne’s rivers to the Wabash River. This allowed boats to travel from the great lakes to the Ohio River and the Mississippi. When Railroads made the old canal obsolete, the tracks were built on the canal’s towpath, and most parts of the canal were eventually filled in.

I made this photograph yesterday evening.

A big piece of iron ore that looks like a turtle stands along a railroad track near the old Wabash-Erie Canal in Allen County, Indiana.

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May 7, 2012

West Central Neighborhood #3

Filed under: American Patriotism,Forgotten Indiana,Fort Wayne — Christopher Crawford @ 6:54 am

This little Victorian house is one of several on Jefferson Boulevard in Fort Wayne’s historic West Central Neighborhood that have the American flag hanging on their porches. I photographed this one back in October, 2011. I just finished work on my Masters Degree last week, so now I can try to catch up on the backlog of photos that have piled up in the last year or so.

An American flag on the front porch of an old Victorian house in the historic West Central neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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