has been kept waiting entirely too long.

The windows spell PENNSYLVANIA LINES; the railroad's logo (a large P atop an interlocking RR on a keystone background) is on the two outermost windows.

The Pennsylvania Line or Liner Company has windows on the 9th floor front of the American Trust Building advertising their business. However in the heat of the 1905 Cleveland Summer they elected to open some of them at varying levels negating any message they were thinking of sending to the viewing public.

The young girl to the right side with the book in her hand, looking off toward the right and the young man with the flowers look like characters right from the pen of Booth Tarkington. I wonder if they met?

Some of the dapper people in the first photo are probably still standing in the second waiting for the train.

Blow up the streetcar. Crafty lads.

According to its Web site, the Old Stone Church endured its first fire one hundred years to the day before I was born. What a great picture.

This certainly is a tastefully attired group of people, not a slob in the entire group. Even the newsboys (who were usually relatively poor) are fully and properly dressed.

What are those angular lines on the side of the American Trust building?

[Looks like ductwork. - Dave]

Looks like those boys are planning to blow up the streetcar when it arrives. They probably have done this many other times in their imaginations.

Anyone know the story behind that sign? (Across the street on the trash bin?)

[Keith's was a national chain of vaudeville theaters. - Dave]

To the left, a group of young anarchists prepare to inflict mass casualties with a pilfered cannon.

Street View still shows people waiting for public transportation at the exact same spot:

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They may be waiting for a streetcar, but the streetcar is waiting on the other side until the guys with that cannon go away.

I would like to see what the scene looked like a few minutes later, after the kids fired the cannon!

They're a pretty serious bunch. I think they could do with a visit from Keith.

They're a pretty serious bunch. I think they could do with a visit from Keith.

They apparently didn't need a cop in this area with the cannon nearby! I've always heard you didn't lock your doors and people felt safer back then. Now I see why!

One of the best spots to spend a warm summer day in downtown Cleveland!
The Old Stone Church was cleaned up back in the late 90's. The rest of the buildings in this pic are long gone (the theater was torn down around 1913).

Not a bare head anywhere. Look at the variety in the men's hats. And there's the one woman with the classic hourglass figure on the right.

Looking at the kids crawling over the gun (looks like a Civil War era smooth-bore) reminds me of family trips to Gettysburg, where my brothers and I would crawl over the cannons and try to shoot each other.

A bare head in sight.