The striking detail on beautiful old buildings like this always amazes me! So glad this one is still standing!

Now where is the Dagger shop?

I have to wonder if Nurse Diesel is standing behind one of those large arched windows and if there is a spiderweb shadow on the walls inside.

How much territory was a street sweeper expected to cover? I think I see another sweeper by the restaurant. How did they manage to clean the streets in the winter - Buffalo can get a lot of snow? As for the letter box - my neighborhood had one until just a few years ago. The Wilkinson Building has a sign proclaiming "Wearing Apparel" - is there any other kind? I'm afraid I am still trying to interpret Dave's reading of the clock.

[I:LV = 1:55. - Dave]

I know, I am probably weird, but I have been an XIIDIGITATOR for many years as well as a fan of sniglets.

XIIDIGITATION (ksi dij i tay' shun) n. The practice of trying to determine the year a movie was made by deciphering the Roman numerals at the end of the credits.

It also works for cornerstones and grave monuments in addition to movie credits.

Especially the one on the left.

This still-standing Beaux Arts building was designed by the Buffalo firm of Green & Wicks. The dome was originally copper-sheathed but is now gilded with gold leaf.

OK, I was away from school the day they taught Roman numerals, never did learn them, I never knew when any building was ever built.

Note the two ladies posing coyly with their two-wheeled steed, behind the fire hydrant.

"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood." So sayeth Susan B. Anthony, in 1896, er, MDCCCXCVI.

There are 2 men in straw Boater hats standing at the curb in front of the J.M. Wilkinson & Co store. One of them appears to have jumped the gun by about 90 years and could be talking on his cell phone, while the other one seems to be blowing his nose into the street.

Oh good the store next door sells cloaks! They are hard to find. It would have been nice if a cloak wearer was seen strutting the latest in early 20th century garb. BTW was 1899 the year the building was built?

Why the different mailboxes? You would think that with the most widespread form of communication (with phones a way distant second) that mailboxes would be large and all over the place.

[With letterboxes on practically every street corner, and pickups at least twice a day, they don't need to be that big. The telegraph, and telegrams, would be No. 2 for intercity communication. - Dave]