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    The plaque on this wonderful 260 foot long bridge, crossing a ravine and built in 1926, proclaims it "with Gothic arches and turrets is a picturesque, useful span serving Franklin Avenue." Designed by J.C. Wright of the Los Angeles City Engineering Office, it is an open spandrel arch bridge in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.  It was retrofitted in 1998 after an earthquake to ensure its survival.  The spandrel is the place between the arches.  Here, they are open and elegantly designed.  Compare this bridge with the Francis Scott Key Bridge or Morris Goodkind Bridge on this site under Stone Bridge Archives.  Supposedly this bridge was the site of a scene in the Wizard of Oz, but apart from a resemblance to the picture of the lamppost and railing, featured here, in the scene where Dorothy emerges from her house in Munchkinland, I've not been able to see it.