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1891–2026, floor instance, boundary, and township test
The floor's transition has a name and a date. Maurice LaMott Jones (b. North Manchester, Indiana, 11 August 1848; d. Lakeworth, Florida, 24 February 1938), a Civil War veteran who reached Fort Wayne in 1876, ran a studio from 1878 — Hamilton & Jones, then his own at 44 Calhoun, the old Poston address — until 1890. In 1891 he gave up studio photography for the supply trade: as Beatty puts it, "with the advent of portable cameras, he and son Harry became dealers of Kodak cameras and film in a shop at 112 West Wayne Street," developing and finishing included. The 1908 Polk directory carries the arrangement in one advertisement: "C. B. Jordan Druggist — Kodak — M. L. Jones, 112 West Wayne Street — Developing and Finishing — Cameras and Supplies." Jones stayed in the trade until 1926, one of the longest tenures in the city's photographic field — the studio chair exchanged, in one working life, for the drugstore Kodak counter.
The nearer boundary's camera-shop line is Gene's Camera of South Bend: founded 1939 as the Picture Equipment Company, bought the same year by Eugene Mutzl and renamed Gene's Photo Shop, sold in 1981 to Jack St. Pierre and renamed Gene's Camera Store, expanded to three further regional locations since closed, and handed on in 2025 to Jon Gilchrist and Melaney Miller, still at 513 Lincoln Way West — photographic processing, cameras, film and accessories at one address across the whole amateur era.
On Granger ground the counter test is negative, with the searches shown. No camera shop, photo finisher or Kodak agency is named for Clay or Harris ground in any directory snapshot searched; no record was found of a photo department or film counter in the history of Granger's grocery anchor — Martin's Super Markets, founded 1947 in South Bend by Martin and Jane Tarnow and acquired by SpartanNash (closed 31 December 2018), whose published store history names departments including its seventeen in-store pharmacies but no photographic line — or in the corridor's drugstore history. Granger's film, on the record as searched, was bought and dropped for finishing in the cities, like its portraits. The settling sources for any deeper claim are the Martin's and Walgreens store-level records themselves, which are not public.