[Leica] A Leica portrait: Packrat

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)]

There is a Harry Baals Drive in Ft. Wayne too. I think they should name the
building after him, he was an important man in the city's history. He was
Fort Wayne's longest serving mayor. Because of the giggles over his unusual
name, it'll never happen. I'm surprised the idiot leaders of this place
haven't renamed the street that bears his name. Who cares of people laugh,
though it would be nice if they laughed at some of the truly stupid things
our city's rulers have done instead of laughing at the name of someone who
is long dead just because his name is modern slang for something dirty.



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On 2/16/11 7:51 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Nice image.  You may perhaps have an equally interesting civic center
> building:
> 
> http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110208/LOCAL/302089963
> 
> Ken
> 
> On 2/16/2011 6:32 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> http://tinyurl.com/packrats-toys
>> 
>> This is the owner of Packrat's Mini-Flea-Market, a small store on Wells
>> Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana that mainly sells old toys. The owner, who
>> says his family calls him Packrat, has the largest collection of Lego sets
>> that I have ever seen. He buys and sells old Lego sets and parts and 
>> keeps a
>> personal collection of them. My son loves Lego bricks, and Packrat has a 
>> lot
>> of very old and hard to find ones, so we have bought a lot of stuff here! 
>> I
>> also have a photograph of the outside of the store.
>> 
>> Shot with an M6 and 28mm ZM Biogon on Tmax 3200 at EI-1600
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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