This is Trainer's Corner in Quakertown - corner of Route 309 and 663

As already stated this is the intersection of West End Boulevard (Route 309) and West Broad Street (Route 663) in Quakertown, PA. Much has changed in this intersection.

The restaurant in the center of the photo was Trainer's Restaurant. According to a Morning Call article, the restaurant had started in the 1930s, when Marguerite and Raymond Trainer bought a tiny truck stop on Old Route 309 in 1932. By the 1950s the restaurant had grown from a truck stop into a more upscale establishment. The article states that actors Bob Hope and Joseph Cotton and basketball star Wilt Chamberlain ate there. The large red wooden lobster became a local landmark. Along with the Benetz Inn and Meyer's Restaurant, it was a renown local destination. It was later sold to Seafood Shanty in 1985 and demolished in 1995. This is now the location of the Trainer's Corner shopping center and a McDonald's sits where the restaurant once stood.

The building in the upper left-hand corner is also gone, it is now the home of a Wendy's. The first house is also demolished and the site is now an Auto Zone. The second house is now the home of businesses and has another building behind it.

The building on the bottom left-hand corner was a Howard Johnson restaurant at the time of the photo, in 1986 became a Bob's Big Boy and is now the Quakertown Family Restaurant.