Elmhurst High School - Anlibrum Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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The Allen County Courthouse makes a beautiful histori through the trees at Freimann Square. This sign painted on a building on the Landing is a not-too-familiar relic from the past. Fort Wayne citizens do have some strange notions now and then, but the park department always remains concerned for our safety. I For Your Safety No Swimming Or Wading

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Sophomores Jeannette Heastan, Jeff Kruse. and Jim Folland try their luck and skill at the always successful Li I Vegas. The four seniors on the Homecoming court and their escorts wait to be announced. Mr. Al Schmutz directs the Trojan Singers in his last Jazz Festival Mr. Schmutz is retiring this year after helping get vocal jazz incorporated in the EJF.

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Take a Look at Fort Wayne To go back 50 years and walk around downtown would definitely provide a culture shock for some of the 1980-81 student body of Elmhurst. In the past half century the face Df Fort Wayne has changed and is, to some, almost jnrecognizable. There are still some old standbys like the Embassy (it used to be called the Emboyd after Emma Boyd). The Landing, although it ' s had somewhat of a facelift and has lost some of its charming members, is still a part of the nightlife. The Courthouse, Old City Hall (it ' s now the Mien County Historical Museum), and the Swinney House are some other landmarks that have resisted the Degressive wrecking ball. Now there are new buildings, and new spaces taking the Dlaces where old buildings used to stand. There are new aarks and playgrounds. The Old Fort, the City-County Building, the Fort Wayne National Bank Building, and of course, One Summit Square all grace the streets of downtown. Fast food chains have infiltrated urban Fort Wayne, and we can ' t forget the cultural additions of the Center for the Performing Arts and Foellinger Theater. Just as scientists observe that California is slowly but surely slipping into the sea, so can citizens of our community see that Fort Wayne is surely but not so slowly moving north. The big surge north began when the Nickel Plate Railroad, which is now the Norfolk and Western, was elevated in the early 1950 ' s. With that out of the way, it gave Fort Waynians free reign to spread, expand, and build shopping centers, apartment complexes, industries, housing developments, the famous by-pass, the regional campus of lU-Purdue, and the Memorial Coliseum which grew out of the Centlivre Estates. With all the northward expansion and the renovation of downtown Fort Wayne, residents have a lot to look forward to but, more importantly, we have A Lot to Look Back On. K2 - TTLZ: sral Mad Anthony Wayne on his faithful steed rides perpetually in imann Square. Santa and his team of reindeer lit up the city for the first time in 23 years after being restored by industrious volunteers.