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Ok, maybe I've misled you. La Jonquille (and it's tragic backstory) is only part of today's post. We're mainly going to be looking at an assortment of things along the Upper Main Line again today, but first let's kick this off with a nighttime visit to the Logan Square Center in Norristown.  As you can tell, demolition is well underway now. They started tearing into the 1-story side of building. It's about halfway gone at this point.  Wandering around the back, the rest of the building is fenced-off but intact. I'm hoping power's cut off to the building despite that light on the wall still being on. It looked like it was connected to a wire coming from the parking lot pole, which too was connected by more wire to the old Sears building, which is not coming down.  Looking in the window of the old Sears, part of which was occupied by an Impact Thrift Store. Most of Impact's carts were either from A&P or SuperFresh, but they had a couple o

If you'll remember, back in my early days on Flickr, I posted a couple photos from the closure and demolition of the Waterloo Gardens in Exton. Well, that wasn't the last you'll be seeing of it. Their Devon store is coming down too, and I've got enough photos of it to give them their own post. It's the least I could do for one of my favorite stores.  Founded in Devon in 1942, Waterloo gardens was the Main Line's most popular garden center and housewares shop. This location was their first. As they grew, they needed more land to grow the plants they sell on so they acquired a field in Exton in 1959. In 1970, they opened their second store on that property. In 2007, they tried to expand by opening two new smaller store-only (no nursery) locations in Warminster PA and Wilmington DE. Warminster , which opened in a former Pathmark, failed after only one year. It later became an IGA, and currently awaits demolition for a Lidl. Strip mall anchor Wilmington fared a