Here’s a scene you surely won’t see again at the Five Points intersection in Montgomery Township — farmers out baling hay.


These men obviously are working hard on a summer’s day to make sure the hay was harvested — perhaps a storm was on the way.

But it’s a bucolic scene, with pleasant-looking houses in the background.

This photo was submitted by the Lansdale Historical Society, and society president Dick Shearer said it was taken sometime in the late 1940s looking from Horsham Road toward Doylestown Pike when Montgomeryville was “still a kinder, quieter place.”

The houses seen in the background are still there, although many of them now have commercial uses, Shearer said.

A few years after this photo was taken, progress stepped in and the Bellevue Diner — one of those stainless steel classics —took over the corner, Shearer said.

Later, Robert Hall and the small shopping center that currently occupies the site replaced the diner, he said.