You certainly won’t ever encounter the Five Points Intersection in Montgomery Township the way you see it in today’s photo.


And there are plenty of other spots in the area that you may not recognize in the “before” photos that will be featured Tuesday night as part of “Then You Saw It, Now You Don’t: Part III,” the Lansdale Historical Society’s Community Program at the Lansdale Parks and Recreation Building, Seventh Street and Lansdale Avenue.

In this photo, you see the Five Points Intersection, circa 1930.

The two houses on the corner still exist, but the open field to the left of Horsham Road long ago yielded to the Belleview Diner, later a Robert Hall clothing store that was replaced by other stores in recent years.

Behind that was the Montgomeryville Mart, which was replaced by the Water Tower Square shopping center.

Note the stop sign on Horsham Road — no traffic signals in those days.

Tuesday night’s program will be the third edition of the society’s popular “before and after” show, which first debuted in 2007. The first two programs featured more than 350 photo images that illustrated changes in the North Penn area landscape over the past century.

This year’s program, coordinated by Steve Moyer, is all-new, and will include dozens of recent additions to the society’s extensive photo collection.

As was the case in previous years, the show will feature a wide array of then-and-now images photographed years part from the same location and angle. In some cases, the new photos reveal drastic changes that have taken place over the years; others provide evidence that time changed very little.

The program begins at 7:30 p.m. There is no admission charge but donations are appreciated.

For more information, call (215) 855-1872.