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Bridge Street Bridge

Seneca County, New York
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Photo taken by Doug Kerr

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Seneca River on Bridge Street in Seneca Falls
Location
Seneca County, New York
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1915; rehabilitated 1997
Design
Baltimore through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 126.0 ft.
Total length: 175.9 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 9.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.90917, -76.80056   (decimal degrees)
42°54'33" N, 76°48'02" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/353021/4752300 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Seneca Falls
Inventory numbers
NY 4435070 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 26802 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/2011)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 43.9 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
2,700

Categories 

Baltimore through truss (148)
Baltimore truss (162)
Built 1915 (967)
Built during 1910s (6,730)
Navigable waterway (1,448)
New York (1,767)
Open (28,309)
 Owned by township (1,813)
Seneca County, New York (13)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,954)
Structurally deficient (16,678)
Through truss (9,205)
Total length 175-250 feet (2,789)
Truss (23,566)

Update Log 

  • September 19, 2010: New photos from Doug Kerr

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  • Doug Kerr
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Bridge Street Bridge
Posted December 12, 2009, by J.R. Manning (thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

Upon further review...

According to the Internet Movie Database, the bridge scenes for "It's a Wonderful Life" were shot on a backlot at RKO Studios. The reason that George Bailey (James Stewart) is sweating in those scenes is because they were shot on days where the temperature was over 90º.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/trivia

So no, this is not the bridge where the scenes were shot.

Bridge Street Bridge
Posted January 24, 2009, by J.R. Manning (thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

Highly unlikely.

The Internet Movie Data Base (imdb.com) lists the only New York location for shooting as Ithaca. I'm not a movie historian, by any means, but I suspect the bridge in IAWL was built on a sound stage.

Any movie historians wnat to take a shot at this one?

Bridge Street Bridge
Posted January 24, 2009, by Anonymous

Is this the bridge that was filmed in Its A Wonderful Life?