A Polaroid snapshot of the brick smokestack and a couple of the buildings at the old Wayne Knitting Mills factory on Growth Avenue, just north of West Main Street, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The smokestack used to be much taller. Parts of it have collapsed and what was left was shortened by the current owners to stabilize the structure. It was originally tall enough for the letters built into the brickwork spelled out the name "Wayne Knitting Mills."

The old factory is a complex of several large brick buildings built in the late 19th Century. Wayne Knitting Mills closed in the early 1960s. The buildings are now home to a metal casting and machining company called the Ward Corporation.

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