Back Home in Indiana: Frankfort Character

Older buildings often are divided into several different areas. In this building there are three separate locations each having their own electric meter. (click on image to enlarge)

Back Home in Indiana: Red Door

In Frankfort the front of most buildings are nicely presented. It's the rear that provides the character. (click on image to enlarge)

Back Home in Indiana: Frankfort Architecture

Interesting architecture not often found in smaller Midwestern cities. (click on image to enlarge)

Back Home in Indiana: Frankfort

Frankfort, Indiana Main Hotel. (click on image to enlarge)

Back Home in Indiana: An Old Friend

Here in Elwood, another of the "real" Mail Pouch wall signs. (click on image to enlarge)

Back Home in Indiana: Elwood Wedge

While the front and back walls are parallel, the side walls are not. The overhead view is a wedge.

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Back Home in Indiana: Elwood

Roby's Grill and in the background the Wedge. More on the Wedge tomorrow. (click on image to enlarge)

Back Home in Indiana: Alexandria

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Back Home in Indiana: Alexandria Diner

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Back Home in Indiana: Alexandria Flag

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Back Home in Indiana: Alexandria

In 1943 the U.S. Office of War Information selected Alexandria as the subject of “Small Town U.S.A.”, a 36 page magazine depicting life in a typical American town during the war. It became Alexandria’s “official” slogan and is still used today. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Upland Auction House

As with many Upland, Indiana business enterprises, the Auction House is closed. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Upland, IN.

Recycled Lodge Hall building. As with many Midwestern towns, the founding of Upland was directly related to the expansion of the railroad across the United States. During this time, people in the area understood the prosperity that the railroad could bring. Area folks founded a town in Grant County to function as a stop on the railroad line. The train station was located on a hill, the highest elevation point between Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois. The area was then named “Upland”. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Eaton, IN.

Once a center of activity, lodge hall's are now mostly empty and abandoned. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Eaton, Indiana

Along Main Street in Eaton, Indiana. Eaton is a small town and as small towns go they were once bursting with life but now there isn't much left. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Mean Dean's

Located in Ohio City, Ohio. (click on image to enlarge)

Road Sign: OK K7 OK

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Richmond, Indiana: July 4th

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Somewhere in W. VA.

Taking a brief break from "Lost in the Midwest". This is the real barn image not something found in a trendy craft town. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Happy Corner

Happy corner is East of Wabash, Ohio on Route 29. (click on image to enlarge)

Lost in the Midwest: Ohio

Just across the Indiana /Ohio boarder is Ohio City, Ohio. As of the census of 2000, there were 784 people residing in the village. In 1910, Ohio City was a very prosperous town. It had three churches, one union school, two dry goods stores, two hardware stores, one clothing store, two millinery establishments, three hotels, three restaurants, one bakery, four saloons, two shoe shops, one tailor shop, one silversmith shop, one slack barrel factory, one lumber yard, two blacksmith shops, two elevators, one tile factory, one lumberyard, two blacksmith shops, one beet dump, two sawmills, one harness shop, one ice-making house, and three railroads all using the centrally located Union Depot. John William Lambert made his first gas-powered car in Ohio City in 1891. Later that summer, Ohio City became the scene of the first automobile accident in the United States, when Lambert's car struck a tree stump in the road and bounced into a hitching rack. (click on image to enlarge)