Where Liberty Bell Park became Franklin Mills Mall
Long before outlet buses and food courts, the land at Woodhaven and Knights Road was known for horses instead of shopping.
Liberty Bell Park opened there on June 7, 1963, as a horse racing track covering 288 acres in Northeast Philadelphia.
The two-tier grandstand seated 30,000, with parking for 10,000 cars, a scale now seen only in crowds at zoning meetings in this town anymore…