It's a Wonderful Life election. The angel shows him Bedford Falls as it would have been not if he had never been born, but as it would have been if he had gone into business instead of politics. Seneca Falls, New York, claims that when Frank Capra visited their town in 1945, he was inspired to model Bedford Falls after it. The town has an annual "It's a Wonderful Life Festival" in December. In mid-2009, The Hotel Clarence opened in Seneca Falls, named for George Bailey's guardian angel. On December 10, 2010, the "It's a Wonderful Life" Museum opened in Seneca Falls, with Karolyn
Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) mid-December 2015 the small Scottish village of Birgham has been unofficially twinned with Bedford Falls, even having their road signs amended to include the reference. Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) Bedford Falls (or Pottersville) is the fictional town in which Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story "The Greatest Gift" and RKO Pictures' 1946 film adaptation, "It's a Wonderful Life," are set. In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls in the state of New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. The two towns are very similar as they are both mill towns, they both