Oct. 18, 2005: Cleaning out a pumpkin
Franke Park Elementary School student Gerardo Quintana cleans out a pumpkin for Fort Wayne Children's Zoo's Halloween event where...
October 15, 2020 1:00 am
July 21, 1967: Water ballet rehearsal
In this photo from July 21, 1967, six swimmers including director James Benson rehearse for the Park Board's annual water ballet, which...
October 8, 2020 1:00 am
July 23, 1966: Covering snake story
Scrolling through old pages of The Journal Gazette on microfilm in the newspaper's archive, I'm always on the lookout for something...
October 1, 2020 1:00 am
Witness to 1957 robbery
In the first bank robbery in Fort Wayne since 1930, two armed men robbed the Rudisill-Clinton branch of the Lincoln National Bank &...
September 24, 2020 1:00 am
Nov. 14, 1995: Giving fall leaves a kick
Autumn begins Tuesday, and you know what that means – yards will soon be full of leaves, and so will gutters and storm drains....
September 17, 2020 1:00 am
Aug. 28, 1947: Strauss announced as Coliseum architect
The local news cover of The Journal-Gazette on Aug. 28, 1947, included the announcement by county commissioners that A.M. Strauss had...
September 10, 2020 10:10 am
June 1954: Rescue Home and Mission gets face lift
In the spring of 1954, the Fort Wayne Rescue Home and Mission was undergoing a face lift, inside and out.
September 3, 2020 1:00 am
A 1921 'dream' of riverfront parks
In the summer of 1921, local candy company Heit-Miller-Lau put up a billboard on Calhoun Street that showed what it called “Just A...
August 27, 2020 1:00 am
April 1, 1948: He saved 8,000 dimes to buy a car
How many dimes would it take to buy a car? It seems 8,000 might have been enough in 1948.
August 20, 2020 1:00 am
February 1966: Showgirls for Civic Guild follies
For at least three days that week in 1966, there were showgirls in Fort Wayne.
August 13, 2020 1:00 am