[Leica] Elwoods Appliances in Waynedale

[Chris Crawford]

Thanks, Jim. Fort Wayne still has a few. There's actually another very old
locally owned appliance shop just down the street from Elwoods. The place
is called Sandpoint TV, and seems to be doing well.

http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=515

I made that photo back in 2008, but the place hasn't changed much.

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On 9/8/14 11:14 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

>Beautifully captured, Chris.  There aren't many places like that left.
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>On 9/8/2014 9:12 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> A couple of nights ago, I photographed the colorful neon sign over the
>> entrance to Elwoods Appliances in Waynedale, one of the last remaining
>> locally owned appliance stores in Fort Wayne. The store looks like
>>something
>> out of a history book, like a lot of the small businesses in Waynedale.
>>
>> Waynedale, the area of Fort Wayne where I grew up, and where I live
>>again
>> now, was a small town until 1957, when it was absorbed by Fort Wayne.
>>The
>> area still looks like a small town, even though it has been part of Fort
>> Wayne longer than it was an independent town!
>>
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1970
>>
>
>
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