A Polaroid photograph of Waynedale Cafe, a locally owned restaurant on Bluffton Road, across the street from the Southwest Conservation Club, in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

When I was a child, this place was called Karen's Kitchen and was known for its donuts and other breakfast foods. After Karen's closed around 2008, it was called Big Daddy's Diner for less than a year. I think that Waynedale Cafe opened sometime in 2009.

Waynedale was once an independent small town. In 1957, it was annexed by the city of Fort Wayne, but it still looks like a small town and still retains a small town culture.

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