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This is a front & back detail of the pedestrian bridge specifically built for BTTF2. It connects the 2015 futuristic version of the theater to the existing stone building across the street. Just above the curved white marquee was the hologram shark advertising JAWS 19 (This time it's really REALLY personal!!). This pedestrian bridge was just a background element with no real purpose but to visually block the very obvious "New York City Studio Backlot" street right behind it, as Hill Valley is set in a small town.

Around on the back side you can see the way its constructed, as to film the "hero side" without the need to continue the details on the back side of a temporary movie set. Under the bridge in the distance you can see the 2nd floor curved brick wall with the "Cubs WIN the World Series" hologram added optically. I walked around and grabbed a few 35mm pics of the BTTF2 futuristic designs before they strike the set & return it to the generic small town so these are not as sharp as digital pics.

I ran across some old 35mm backstage pics I took when doing some contract work at Universal Studios California in the late 1980s. They had just wrapped Back to the Future 2 and this is the street along the righthand side of Courthouse Square. Universal (as most other studios) rent out their stages for smaller productions and I had done contract work on rented space there for something else so I'd ride a studio bicycle around on lunch breaks and check out what was going on around the studio backlots.

Sadly, just a few years after this was the great Universal backlot fire that destroyed most of the original Courthouse Square perimeter buildings, so much of its original heritage was lost...

Description
This is a front & back detail of the pedestrian bridge specifically built for BTTF2. It connects the 2015 futuristic version of the theater to the existing stone building across the street. Just above the curved white marquee was the hologram shark advertising JAWS 19 (This time it's really REALLY personal!!). This pedestrian bridge was just a background element with no real purpose but to visually block the very obvious "New York City Studio Backlot" street right behind it, as Hill Valley is set in a small town.

Around on the back side you can see the way its constructed, as to film the "hero side" without the need to continue the details on the back side of a temporary movie set. Under the bridge in the distance you can see the 2nd floor curved brick wall with the "Cubs WIN the World Series" hologram added optically. I walked around and grabbed a few 35mm pics of the BTTF2 futuristic designs before they strike the set & return it to the generic small town so these are not as sharp as digital pics.

I ran across some old 35mm backstage pics I took when doing some contract work at Universal Studios California in the late 1980s. They had just wrapped Back to the Future 2 and this is the street along the righthand side of Courthouse Square. Universal (as most other studios) rent out their stages for smaller productions and I had done contract work on rented space there for something else so I'd ride a studio bicycle around on lunch breaks and check out what was going on around the studio backlots.

Sadly, just a few years after this was the great Universal backlot fire that destroyed most of the original Courthouse Square perimeter buildings, so much of its original heritage was lost...