The quality of old photographs is amazing. The picture below is a section of a panoramic picture taken during WWI, or possibly the early 1920s. The subjects are standing on the gallery of the old Imperial Offices. The Char House would be built in 1925 and stand in the background next to the Imperial Offices.
Be sure to click on the picture so it's magnified. Note the girls sitting on the front bumper of a car on the far right and the fancy hats the women on the left are wearing. I assume word spread through town they were going to take pictures, so everyone dressed up for the occasion.
