The wet pavement and streetlights conspired tonight to make a lot of details more visible. Most notable is that upon passing my old friend the B.F. Churchill stamp it leapt out at me that of course the date on it is 1908. I just hadn’t been willing to see it because it didn’t seem consistent with my research. How did he go from having his own cement finishing business in 1908, to being a dray line operator in 1915, and then working for Reniger Construction in the 1920s? I suppose I shouldn’t be so surprised when J.P. Sleight was both a dairy farmer, a coal supplier, and a sidewalk builder.

If I am correct in my new assessment, it’s the best condition sidewalk I’ve seen among the pre-1910 stamps. It should be here a long while to come.

It was hard to get a photo that showed the play of light as I saw it. This is the best I could do.