A Former Genuardi's, Clemens, and an ACME

 RadioShack, Paoli, PA
This location closed down with the chain in mid-2017 after an incredibly long closing sale. It sat vacant for a little while, but recently reopened as an F45 Fitness.

 Abandoned Garage, Spring City, PA
This place has been empty as long as I can remember. A few years ago, the side wall of the office portion collapsed and the property was fenced off. Strangely, they patched the collapsed wall with more cinderblock but didn't mortar any of it together. It's just a stack of blocks.

 White Hall Inn, Spring City, PA
The long-abandoned White Hall Inn was restored when a veteran's assisted living community was built on the property. I'd say they did a nice job although I am a little irritated this happened before I could get some better abandoned pictures of it.

 Gulf, Spring City, PA
The former Gulf station, which operated for the last 30 years or so as an exterminator's office, has returned to automotive use. It's now a repair shop which I believe specializes in luxury cars.

 "The 80's Called, They Want Their Store back"
I'm pretty sure this place has been closed for over a decade at this point, but thankfully they left their signs up. This street isn't looking too lively, so I have a feeling these won't be going anywhere soon either.

 Turkey Hill, Spring City, PA
This location most likely opened in the 80's or 90's. I want to say this sold Citgo gas originally but don't remember for sure. Turkey Hill wasn't always consistent with which gas brand they carried; I think Citgo and Amoco were the two big ones. Now it's all private label.

 Wawa, Royersford, PA
This looks like a 70's location, which would have closed in the late 90's when a new location was built down the road. It was then split between H&R Block and Superior Credit Union. Superior moved to a freestanding location a few years ago and is still vacant.

 Outback, Royersford, PA
Outback opened this location in 2008. It was probably among the last done in this style, which had been in use since at least the 90's. I think the new design looks better, but this seems more fitting for an Australian-themed steakhouse.

 Genuardi's, Royersford, PA
Since our last visit, the store has finally been cleared out. I'd assume this was done around the same time as they emptied Lionville, since these were both from the same closing round and both sat empty but totally furnished for at least three years. As of earlier this year, work is underway turning this into an Urban Air trampoline park.

 I would have loved to have visited this store while it was still open. It would have been more or less identical to Audubon on the inside when it first opened, but was redone to their last pre-Safeway décor in the early 2000's. Being one of the chain's lower performing stores, it never got the Lifestyle remodel. I think all of the non-Lifestyle stores were left behind by Giant with the exception of Kenneyy Square and Maple Glen. (The Edgmont and since-relocated Feasterville stores also didn't have Lifestyle but they were special cases. Feasterville got bought a couple years before the rest of the chain and Edgmont was a closed store Giant opened up in).

 When the space is cleared out, you can see how small the store really is. Genuardi's didn't build terribly large locations, which is why Giant's already moving out of a few (Feasterville, Jamison, and Flourtown) and expanding another (St.David's/Radnor).

 Looking through part of the café towards where the coffee stand was. I'm really hoping that décor didn't all wind up in a dumpster.

 More café space, which I think was added in the 2000's remodel. This would have been a covered walkway originally.

 Wawa, Limerick, PA
This location opened in the late 90's, although the shopping center that surrounds it is several years newer. I'm guessing they just built around this. I think this was in Wawa's second round of remodels to this design in late 2015.

 Fecera's/Raymour and Flanigan, Limerick, PA
Fecera's opened with the center in 2008, and closed this location in 2016. It sat vacant for a little while before being turned into a Raymour and Flanigan outlet.

 The Court at Upper Providence, Limerick, PA
This shopping center has a few smaller buildings out by the road. It has an interesting layout- the main strip mall is all big box stores, and the smaller locations that would usually be in the inline space are set out in the parking lot like this.

 Texaco?, Trappe, PA
This gas station closed down several years ago, and is now operating as a heating oil company. The gas canopy was taken down since I got this picture.

 Mobil/Getty, Trappe, PA
Getty closed this location in 2013, along with several other locations in the state. It's still vacant. I believe the Getty company went under not long after. Most of the remaining locations rebranded to Gulf in 2017. I don't believe there are any left, but it's hard to confirm or deny that.

 Clemens/SuperFresh/Goodwill, Trappe, PA
Most of the remaining vacant portion of the old Clemens has been split between Goodwill and Anytime Fitness, but a little space at the end is still vacant. Unfortunately as part of the remodel, the old Clemens façade has been removed.

 In 2015, the other side of the store was turned into an Indian grocery store and restaurant. They were kicked out in 2016 for not paying rent. In 2017, the back half of the space was turned into a BounceU trampoline park (Trampoline parks seem to be trendy now).  The remaining front part of the restaurant is now a café, which I guess was basically move-in ready. All the restaurant fixtures were left in place despite half of it being walled off.
Something strange I noticed was that they left the Clemens lighting up in the ceiling, which seems strange for a restaurant.

 This part was the Indian grocery store, which remains vacant aside from the parts BounceU cut out. When it was open, it still had Clemens' produce spotlight lattice. Unfortunately that was long gone by the time I got here.

 Speaker's House, Trappe, PA
This house was built in 1763 and was the home of Frederick Muhlenberg, America's third speaker of the house. The building was expanded and heavily remodeled in the mid-1800's, and abandoned in the early 2000's. It was threatened with demolition for a few years, but ultimately was bought by a preservation group who is turning it into a museum. Here they are in the process of removing the 1800's mansard roof and replacing it with one more like it would have had originally. The 1860's addition was demolished during the time it was abandoned.

 Dewees Tavern, Trappe, PA
The oldest part of this building dates back to the mid-1700's, although several additions have been put on over the years. It now serves as the headquarters for the local historical society.

 ACME/Aldi, Limerick, PA
Returning once again to what might have been the saddest ACME ever, work is underway turning part of it into an Aldi. When this store opened in 2007, it was supposed to be the store of the future. It sadly didn't take off. In an effort to drive more customers here, ACME closed their more profitable Collegeville store (This was when the company was under StupidValu's [mis]management if you couldn't guess). Ultimately this store closed in 2011. Most of the fixtures were taken out and put in the new Bryn Mawr store that opened the following year. It sat empty for nearly double the time it was open before Aldi took over half the store. Planet Fitness leased the other end of the store in 2018. The middle still sits vacant.

 The entryway closest to me is where Aldi is now, the far one is Planet Fitness.

 Aldi totally rebuilt this entryway to match their design, even though they definitely could have made this work.

 Planet Fitness kept the big glass vestibule, but moved the entrance into the alcove next to it. The old vestibule serves as more of an atrium now.

 Looking into the future Aldi portion of the building. They decided to keep the skylights, which I think was a good call.

 Currently vacant space. The store's been gutted out, although it wasn't like ACME left much behind to start with.

 What I thought was interesting was that even the back rooms had skylights too, which we can see now that the wall's gone.

 Looking into the vestibule, the apple-print wallpaper's been peeled off. Planet Fitness painted this white, but also added a backlit logo in the middle.

 The green siding wasn't the best design choice. It's already faded a lot.

 Sunoco, Limerick, PA
This was a 60's location that never got converted to an Aplus. Instead, it continues to operate as a service center, which was remodeled to its current look in 2015. They use basically the same exterior as Aplus, but with blue instead of red.

Eckerd/Rite Aid/Dollar Tree, Limerick, PA
This Eckerd opened in 2003. It was one of the first to be remodeled by Rite Aid, but relocated a year later. I'm assuming this was because Rite Aid already had plans to open a store and wanted something that wouldn't be around long to test their remodel in. I'm pretty sure the store they moved into was in the planning stages before they took this over.