Found this in the archives. It is Silver City, Idaho, and there's a band on Wells Fargo's deck.

There's probably a good reason for it—notice the building houses a photograph gallery. Meaning, a photographer trying to find a "hit" shot that will sell his work. In them days  (1880s), photographers were in the portrait biz, but the technology was improving. It was possible to start doing the photography we know today—find a subject and take a picture.

If you found a good shot, a nice picture resulted. A nice picture is something we all want to look at, so an admirer might hang it on the wall. Voila! Photography as art form . And Wells Fargo is, uh, on the ground floor of the innovation.

Another possibility is "The Music Man"  factor. Some guy actually pulled off the Harold Hill  caper, sold a bunch of instruments and uniforms to the excited folks in Silver City, and got this pic to use in the next town. Just a thought ...

If there are better explanations out there, let me have 'em. The zanier the better.