You’ve probably driven past one of these without knowing it. The Aldi off Route 309 in Montgomeryville sits where carloads once swapped a driver’s license for an in-car heater on cold nights.
The food court at Plymouth Meeting Mall covers the ground where moviegoers once sat near a fountain that never worked. And the office building at First Avenue and Fayette Street in Conshohocken used to draw lines of kids around the block for an 11-cent Saturday matinee.
Long before streaming and multiplexes, Montgomery County families spent weekends at amusement parks, drive-ins and neighborhood movie houses…