The Shakespeare Bridge at the far end of Franklin Avenue in Los Feliz was built in 1926 – a public works project, a simple open-spandrel reinforced concrete deck arch bridge – but the designer, J. C. Wright, made it Gothic, with Gothic aedicules at either end. Yes, it’s spooky, and since 1974, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. It pops up in movies now and then. It didn’t survive its fictional destruction in the 2015 movie “San Andreas Quake” but...
more »The Shakespeare Bridge at the far end of Franklin Avenue in Los Feliz was built in 1926 – a public works project, a simple open-spandrel reinforced concrete deck arch bridge – but the designer, J. C. Wright, made it Gothic, with Gothic aedicules at either end. Yes, it’s spooky, and since 1974, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. It pops up in movies now and then. It didn’t survive its fictional destruction in the 2015 movie “San Andreas Quake” but it's central in “Dead Heat” – the 1991 neo-noir mystery directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring him and his wife, Emma Thompson. He’s the private eye. She’s the femme fatale. The bad guys chase him across this bridge and beat him up. He’s a famous British Shakespearean actor. Of course he used this bridge. ~ Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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