Trainer's Corner in Quakertown - corner of Route 309 and 663 (looking NW)

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 land behind the restaurant contains the shopping plaza.