As long as I could remember, there was a Salvation Army Thrift Store in this building at the Quimby Village Shopping Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A few years before I photographed it, the store was closed and moved to a new location in the Southgate Plaza Shopping Center.

The new store is bigger, and the store in the well-maintained Southgate Plaza looks nicer than the old one in the run-down Quimby Village, but the old store always had a charm to it that the new one can't match. I don't know what was in this building before the Salvation Army occupied it, but it always felt like a place that had once been an elegant place whose beauty had badly faded. The stairway and balcony in the front window, with their beautifully decorated railings, were too nice for a thrift shop. Maybe it was once a department store or a high-end clothing store?

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