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Corner Building detail, angle 1, 12th & Park, Paso Robles, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  801 12th St now brownbuttercookies.com/store.html Streetview 2015

Cleaning the GPO clock, Sydney, 1935

from State Library of New South Wales

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236501851 - the Labor Daily, 5th April, 1935...looks like a cropped version of this pic here...if so, then this is the southern side of the tower...and the hands had evidently been stopped...so chances are we'll never know what the time really was !
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230289873 - the Sun, 9th April, 1935...a few days later the Sun had this 'When Time Stops for Man' pic...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/work/183005398 - ca. 1930 NLA Fairfax pic of clock maker Henry Daly, the contractor responsible for the construction and installation of the clock and bells in the GPO clock tower...following the installation in 1891 he continued as custodian of the GPO clock and bells until he retired at the end of 1930...

• Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

  The clock being installed 1889
  

Thought we'd found our first ever Matchmaker...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 58 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thanks for the clock. Looks like noon, unless the clock needs fixing. Perhaps the local watchmaker can help ...

• Niall McAuley said:

  Ankle length skirt, top hat on yerman, we are a lot closer to 1900 than 1936

• beachcomber australia said:

  Rathmines Town Hall opened in 1896 (earliest date).
  " ...The clock in the tower was made by Chancellor and Son of Bachelors Walk, but it was unreliable and the time shown on the different faces were inconsistent, so the clock became known as the "four-faced liar". ... "
  via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathmines_Town_Hall

• John Spooner said:

  Dublin Evening Mail - Wednesday 12 December 1906. Kearns the watchmaker was a JJ just like his neighbour at number 74.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia Glad you brought up unreliability. Is it just my ancient wonky eyes, or is the left-hand hand face not as exactly on High Noon?