Now I am a great fan of window displays, which can brighten up a shop exterior and of course draw you in.
In the past they have featured Super woman while the premise in St Ann’s Passage in town has sported equally happy and eye-catching displays.
And back on Beech Road the new one features Bedford Falls with its nod to that ever popular Christmas film, “It’s a Wonderful Life”
My Wikipedia tells me that “In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls, New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls.
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. The locations are both close to Buffalo, Elmira, and Rochester, New York.
In Seneca Falls, there was a local businessman named Norman J. Gould, who owned Gould Pumps, and was one of the richest men in town. Gould also had great control over politics and economics of the area, much as Henry F. Potter did in the film.
So that is it, other than to say the artwork on the window was by Lobster House Studios which have done heaps of shops.
Location; Beech Road
Pictures; Bedford Falls on Beech Road, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Framed Opticians, https://www.framedopticians.co.uk/
**Bedford Falls, It's A Wonderful Life, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Falls_(It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life)
***Lobster House Studios, Commercial Artist, Window painting, Murals, Signs, Logos and Graphic Design, https://www.facebook.com/lobsterhousestudios/
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