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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Being the snoop that I am...my eyes fixated on the strange object in the foreground.
This thing
Then it dawned on me; Could this be one of those old apothecary signs that featured a mortar and pestle?
Similar to this one.
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Do you think there are enough clues in SheriffPaul's photograph to figure out if the photographer is standing near, or on top of, a pharmacy? 
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e_r, I think the photographer is standing on the roof or a balcony of the US Hotel:
image from http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/botello.html
The ground floor of hotels would usually host storefronts, so it's not unlikely that there was a little drug store prompting the sign.
Me, I looked at the mystery object (mortar and pestle) and thought, "Look! The Sword in the Stone!"