For a century, General Electric operated a sprawling factory complex on Broadway, south of downtown, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The factory had a huge sign with the the company's name and logo spelled out in lights mounted on the roof of one of the buildings on the east side of Broadway.

The iconic GE sign remained lit long after the company had closed the factories, but it was finally dismantled on March 29, 2016. According to a local TV news report, the company took the sign down because people had been sneaking into the building and vandalizing the sign.

I made this photograph a few weeks later, as workers were dismantling and removing the steel I-beam frame that had once supported the sign. The building in the foreground is the IUE-CWA Local 901 Union Hall on Broadway, on the south edge of the GE complex. The union had represented the GE workers prior to the closure of the factories.

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