Through the years they redecorated the house, raised four children there, and lived the rest of their lives in the house. The wish actually came true when in 1932, on the night of George and Mary's wedding, she bought it as their home. Mary wouldn't tell George her wish but later in the film she told him she had wished to marry him and live in the house. George wished for a future of traveling and becoming an architect. Both George and Mary threw rocks at the house after a high school party. It was an abandoned house that became known to youngsters as the place to throw rocks at, and if you smashed a window you could make a wish. Another house down the street is 320 Sycamore, known as the Old Granville House. One of them was where Mary ( Donna Reed) grew up. Hinds) and Ma Bailey ( Beulah Bondi) and is where George and his younger brother, Harry, grew up as kids. New England Street holds eight residential houses. The Bailey Building and Loan is at the corner of Genesee Street and Jefferson Avenue. Another road goes southwest to the railway station. At the south side of the town, a road heads east, to New England and Sycamore streets.
One is Jefferson Avenue, which goes to the high school and Potter's Field, and the other is Washington Avenue. The parkway is split off into three, as two roads cut through Genesee Street. ĭown the center of the street, there is a tree-lined parkway with fifteen oak trees. There is also a drug store (Gower's Drugs), a toy shop, a meat market, a newspaper office (the Bedford Falls Sentinel), a tailor's shop, a bicycle shop, a garage, a bowling alley and pool house, a hotel, a grocery, two cafés (including the Tiptop Café), a bonds store, a gas company, a telephone exchange, a police station and a building and loan (Bailey Brothers) that George ( James Stewart) ends up running with his Uncle Billy ( Thomas Mitchell) after George's father dies. The street is 300 yards long, with over 30 stores and buildings, including a public library, a dance academy, a trust and savings bank, an emporium, a Western Union and American Airlines office, a barber shop, a florist, a beauty shop, a bakery, an antique shop, a "World Luggage and Sports Shop", a hardware store, a candy shop, an art store, a music store, and a theater (Bijou Theater). At the north end is a courthouse with a street heading east down Bridge Street, which departs the town. Genesee Street is the main road through Bedford Falls. The name Bedford Falls derives from both Seneca Falls and a hamlet in Westchester County, New York, called Bedford Hills. Gould also had great control over politics and economics of the area, much as Henry F. Gould, who owned Gould Pumps, and was one of the richest men in town. In Seneca Falls, there was a local businessman named Norman J. The locations are both close to Buffalo, Elmira, and Rochester, New York. The real town and the fictional town are very similar as they are both mill towns, they both had a grassy median down the main street (Seneca Falls does not anymore), both communities boast Victorian architecture and a large Italian population, and they both have very similar toll bridges. In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls, New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. 2.2 New England Street and Sycamore Avenue.
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