What I really like about Fort Wayne are the old neighborhoods, many of which are on the historical register. Lots of fine old big houses as well as classical family middle class neighborhoods.
Fort Wayne grew from a town on the Erie canal to nice town in which to live. Lots of industry here. But they have fixed up the downtown again and it is very nice now. Not as many big stores as there used to be. The mall was dead the last time I visited. Now that people have cars, the big stores are all around town out in what used to be the suburbs. FW is still a nice place to live. It has everything you need.
My grandfather Joe Weaver was the original announcer for the Zollner Pistons when they moved here from Toledo (where my mother was born) and then he moved with them to Detroit and became an anchor for Channel 2 CBS Detroit. I randomly was born in Connecticut but have a lot of historical family ties to the Midwest. The Wurtsmith Air Force Base (which bears my last name) in Michigan used to get a lot of parts both industrial and military from good ol' FW. They demod the A10 warthog there before the Fort Wayne NatGuard AF reserve based kept them at the ready. I miss the old St Marys. I still attend the new Cathedral every Sunday morning. Great Video.
huh but zollner piston was a buisness in fort wayne, they must have moved a team from there to fort wayne, though the zollner name was used on many teams including a baseball team that pretty much went undefeated for 2 years when that legue disbanded, as for me shocked that film footage of wolf and dessaur displays exist they have a few they think were used in the shop on display during the gingerbread festival and in the windows of the embassy theater but not much survived, the giant santa though and wreath that were on the buildings are still displayed on places, wolf and dessaur though was before my time though they had a place at southtown mall now gone as of 2004 but that was bought by the ls ayers company which had a lunch room/tea room for well into the 80's or early 90's ayers was bought up and made a bloomingdails then short order marshal fields, who then in turn bought by macys, and its just not the same event the origional marshal fields did not keep its name as the flagship store in chicago, had family that worked there when they were growing up, and to think footage of the fire of w and d exists its mindblowing and exciting that capsule of history, though half the stores and hotels I never heard of and the buidings I am not sure are still there saddly there are some things that were mentioned in the video also that are now gone, baer field raceway, and carrington field both are gone, carrington they built stuff over and changed the traffic pattern to get to the collosium and baer field well the owner died and sons did not renew lease and pandemic hit and remained closed some racers I knew up in dekalb here were going to try to buy it but gm outbid them and was going to use as a test track for the trucks they build there in roanoke, but now it might have been given back to the airport I dont know what will become of it but its still there as of spring of 2023 forlorn. also the major brewhouses might be gone but we do have plenty of micro brewerys and more cropping up all the time, the theaters though there are few of those left, most are gone, st marys was such a sad day it was lost, nothing but walls left now the building they put up cant hold a candle to the former one, though it does have a nice soup kitchen and ministries for the poor, but seats maybe 200 instead of 900 with the old one, we also lost st pauls, and the packerd piano company we still have some out there that exist, but traces of the old factory I belive were built over, an investor in that though was john bass from bass foundry which in 1907 was the largest railcar wheel foundry in the world, but after he died things went downhill and they tore the building down in 2017 I noticed the demo in progress while doing some video fiming of the old walbash roundhouse and about where the old pennsy roundhouse sat across from big c lumber on the east side of downtown had I known that such an old landmark was going I would have stopped that winters day and took footage of it as well, the railroads at the turn of the 20th century were a major part of fort wayne, the pennsy shops were called the altoon of the west for trains west of philly or pitsburg I think, but you had no less then 4 railyards in the city, the pennsy, the walbash, the nickleplate, and eventually new york central but I think it was the jackson and saganaw origionally. Bass foundry would have been just south of the raiilroad shops of the pennsy down by hanna street, now though little is left of any of it but a few watertowers a sign, a bridge and the old train station at bakerstreet, same with the old gas pump makers 3 of the largest 4 were located in the fort, the first electric ones and self metering were invented here, also the kunkle safety valve they used on steam locomotives also mr erastamus kunkle invented the water pressure and steam pressure guage, the gage cock that it attached to and he invented the egg beater its true.
I live in the Detroit area now, and was born here in Detroit. Moved to Fort Wayne temporarily in 1983 till September 1991. I remember Joe Weaver on Channel 2.
Fort Wayne was and is now a great place to live. I miss it, and the people.Although a city now, it still has the small town atmosphere, I think it part because a lot of the residents' parents coming off the farm probably adopted a certain way of living/existing, and a small town attitude on how to treat one another. It's real, and it's alive today in the attitudes of people in Fort Wayne. It's super nice place to bring up a family, and the economy is strong, and the city government sems to have a handle on how to direct the city going forward. Innovative and vibrant.
Any known history of the brewery that once existed in New Haven? I was doing some railroad research a few years back and stumbled upon a map that noted a brewery on the East side and even a large lumber yard not far from it.
The closest brewery to New Haven was the Falstaff brewery, and before that it was The Berghoff brewery the great lakes railyard is about five minutes east of where that brewery was it’s an NS yard and nickel plate road which is an NS main line that goes up to Chicago is right across the street from that brewery that brewery is now is a mechanical contractor that bought it in 2001 I actually work there. .
@@timcurrent5511I'm familiar with the Falstaff and Berghoff Breweries. I grew up in New Haven. The Sanborn Fire Insurance maps I looked at from the early 1900's showed it in the area near where the New Haven water tower exists, closer to where the new (1990's) fire station is. By 1920 it was no longer on the map. Someone from a Facebook group actually had a glass bottle from there.
What I really like about Fort Wayne are the old neighborhoods, many of which are on the historical register. Lots of fine old big houses as well as classical family middle class neighborhoods.
I lived in Marion but I went with my dad in late 1960's to Zoli's Pizza.
Fort Wayne grew from a town on the Erie canal to nice town in which to live. Lots of industry here. But they have fixed up the downtown again and it is very nice now. Not as many big stores as there used to be. The mall was dead the last time I visited. Now that people have cars, the big stores are all around town out in what used to be the suburbs. FW is still a nice place to live. It has everything you need.
my dads family pharmacy was on Creighton
Thank you for this video! Very interesting
My grandfather Joe Weaver was the original announcer for the Zollner Pistons when they moved here from Toledo (where my mother was born) and then he moved with them to Detroit and became an anchor for Channel 2 CBS Detroit. I randomly was born in Connecticut but have a lot of historical family ties to the Midwest. The Wurtsmith Air Force Base (which bears my last name) in Michigan used to get a lot of parts both industrial and military from good ol' FW. They demod the A10 warthog there before the Fort Wayne NatGuard AF reserve based kept them at the ready. I miss the old St Marys. I still attend the new Cathedral every Sunday morning. Great Video.
huh but zollner piston was a buisness in fort wayne, they must have moved a team from there to fort wayne, though the zollner name was used on many teams including a baseball team that pretty much went undefeated for 2 years when that legue disbanded, as for me shocked that film footage of wolf and dessaur displays exist they have a few they think were used in the shop on display during the gingerbread festival and in the windows of the embassy theater but not much survived, the giant santa though and wreath that were on the buildings are still displayed on places, wolf and dessaur though was before my time though they had a place at southtown mall now gone as of 2004 but that was bought by the ls ayers company which had a lunch room/tea room for well into the 80's or early 90's ayers was bought up and made a bloomingdails then short order marshal fields, who then in turn bought by macys, and its just not the same event the origional marshal fields did not keep its name as the flagship store in chicago, had family that worked there when they were growing up, and to think footage of the fire of w and d exists its mindblowing and exciting that capsule of history, though half the stores and hotels I never heard of and the buidings I am not sure are still there
saddly there are some things that were mentioned in the video also that are now gone, baer field raceway, and carrington field both are gone, carrington they built stuff over and changed the traffic pattern to get to the collosium and baer field well the owner died and sons did not renew lease and pandemic hit and remained closed some racers I knew up in dekalb here were going to try to buy it but gm outbid them and was going to use as a test track for the trucks they build there in roanoke, but now it might have been given back to the airport I dont know what will become of it but its still there as of spring of 2023 forlorn.
also the major brewhouses might be gone but we do have plenty of micro brewerys and more cropping up all the time, the theaters though there are few of those left, most are gone, st marys was such a sad day it was lost, nothing but walls left now the building they put up cant hold a candle to the former one, though it does have a nice soup kitchen and ministries for the poor, but seats maybe 200 instead of 900 with the old one, we also lost st pauls, and the packerd piano company we still have some out there that exist, but traces of the old factory I belive were built over, an investor in that though was john bass from bass foundry which in 1907 was the largest railcar wheel foundry in the world, but after he died things went downhill and they tore the building down in 2017 I noticed the demo in progress while doing some video fiming of the old walbash roundhouse and about where the old pennsy roundhouse sat across from big c lumber on the east side of downtown had I known that such an old landmark was going I would have stopped that winters day and took footage of it as well, the railroads at the turn of the 20th century were a major part of fort wayne, the pennsy shops were called the altoon of the west for trains west of philly or pitsburg I think, but you had no less then 4 railyards in the city, the pennsy, the walbash, the nickleplate, and eventually new york central but I think it was the jackson and saganaw origionally. Bass foundry would have been just south of the raiilroad shops of the pennsy down by hanna street, now though little is left of any of it but a few watertowers a sign, a bridge and the old train station at bakerstreet, same with the old gas pump makers 3 of the largest 4 were located in the fort, the first electric ones and self metering were invented here, also the kunkle safety valve they used on steam locomotives also mr erastamus kunkle invented the water pressure and steam pressure guage, the gage cock that it attached to and he invented the egg beater its true.
I live in the Detroit area now, and was born here in Detroit. Moved to Fort Wayne temporarily in 1983 till September 1991. I remember Joe Weaver on Channel 2.
thanks for the video pretty cool stuff here
my moms dads bar was the stine tavern at Pontiac and Wayne trace
I’m not from Fort Wayne, though I’ve long wanted to move there. The nostalgia had me firmly in its grasp.
Wtf for lol. Crime?
Fort Wayne was and is now a great place to live. I miss it, and the people.Although a city now, it still has the small town atmosphere, I think it part because a lot of the residents' parents coming off the farm probably adopted a certain way of living/existing, and a small town attitude on how to treat one another. It's real, and it's alive today in the attitudes of people in Fort Wayne. It's super nice place to bring up a family, and the economy is strong, and the city government sems to have a handle on how to direct the city going forward. Innovative and vibrant.
Glad to be a son of "The Fort"born October 22 '57
The only thing still downtown is regals,powers, and coney
And then my favorite “sunny schick’s camera store” and then Amazon put them out of business. 😢
@@chocloditelensmanamazon put alot of things outta a business just like Wal-Mart.....capitalism at it's finest
Fort wayne rise up
Any known history of the brewery that once existed in New Haven? I was doing some railroad research a few years back and stumbled upon a map that noted a brewery on the East side and even a large lumber yard not far from it.
My grandfather had a pharmacy in Fort Wayne that was over a 100 years old
The closest brewery to New Haven was the Falstaff brewery, and before that it was The Berghoff brewery the great lakes railyard is about five minutes east of where that brewery was it’s an NS yard and nickel plate road which is an NS main line that goes up to Chicago is right across the street from that brewery that brewery is now is a mechanical contractor that bought it in 2001 I actually work there. .
@@timcurrent5511I'm familiar with the Falstaff and Berghoff Breweries. I grew up in New Haven. The Sanborn Fire Insurance maps I looked at from the early 1900's showed it in the area near where the New Haven water tower exists, closer to where the new (1990's) fire station is. By 1920 it was no longer on the map. Someone from a Facebook group actually had a glass bottle from there.
Fictional home town of Maj. Frank Burns of the 4077 MASH!