A Polaroid snapshot of the sign in front of the last Penguin Point Restaurant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The restaurant, located on Lower Huntington Road, just east of Winchester Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, closed forever in November, 2022. This is the first of three Polaroids that I made of it.

Founded in 1950, Penguin Point is an Indiana-based fast food chain that had several Fort Wayne locations when I was young; but for the last 25 years or so, the Waynedale location was the only one left in the city. They are still open in several small towns in northeast Indiana, though the number of small town locations has dwindled in recent years as well.

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. There are a lot of locally owned businesses here. Lower Huntington Road was and still is Waynedale's "Main Street."

12-11-22

Update: In November, 2023 Penguin Point's 73 years in business came to an end when the six remaining Penguin Point locations closed their doors.