Beautiful decorative clocks once enhanced downtown streets across America. Many of these architectural-scale timepieces were installed in the public way by jewelry stores and served as advertisements for an adjacent business. But the streetscape was the beneficiary – the clocks provided intermediate scale between buildings and people and like awnings and good signs, added detail and interest to the sidewalk. Many of the iron-based clocks are still seen in and around downtowns. Note that the clocks are ancestors to the more sterile digital time and temperature signs later deployed by banks.