Mary Rose Di Domizio of Lansdale submitted today’s walk down memory lane.

According to Di Domizio, this photo was “snapped in the 1960s. We now belong to the Woman’s Club of Lansdale.”

But back then, it was the Junior Woman’s Club of Lansdale that was planting flowers at the railroad station plaza along Main Street in Lansdale.

According to the caption that accompanied this photo from a newspaper clipping:

“Pleasing to the eye is this bed of petunias and juniper shrubs planted by the Junior Woman’s Club of Lansdale ... Supervising the watering of the club beautification project are Mrs. Gordon Gerhart, garden department chairman, and Mrs. Robert Di Domizio, a member of the committee which planted the triangular bed leased from the Reading Railroad.”

In the story that ran with this photo, it was noted that the plants were placed on May 15, and were either donated by local florists or sold at cost to the club.

The project had been discussed that March with G. Austin Kulp, the clipping notes, of the Lansdale Community Improvement Association.

“The services of Doylestown landscape architect John F. Kennedy were acquired, after a plan was presented to the Reading Railroad and borough council for approval,” the newspaper notes.

Today, Lansdale’s “improvement” projects include the Center for the Performing Arts. But efforts to change the town for the better have never ceased.