Mounting Block Behind Ford's?

[Laurie Verge]

I have never seen reference to one, and there has been no semblance of one in the years that I have traipsed back into what used to be the original cobblestone alley.

I have always thought of mounting blocks used mainly by ladies and men who might have difficulties mounting the normal way or being used to enter and exit a carriage. I'm also not sure that horse traffic in the rear of Ford's was extensive enough to require such a thing.

Booth was known as an excellent horseman, so I'm not sure that anything would help or hinder his mounting horse.