Welcome to the unofficial website of
the venerable 6th Street Bridge,
over the LA River in Downtown.
You can buy prints by the photographer!
310-963-7510
For official information on the bridge, go to
More of Kevin's photography can be viewed at
http://BridgesofLosAngeles.com
and
updated 28 January 2020
My book, "Bridges of Downtown Los Angeles" is now for sale!
Get your own copy from Target! or here at Amazon!
Thousands attend the Closing Festival for the old Sixth Street Viaduct on 24th October 2015!
A drone's view of the party
photo by Ziegler for LAist.com
Downtown LA as seen through the rain in Winter 2010
From the LA Times on January 9th, 2012,
"6th Street Bridge was the fifth busiest site for on location filming in 2012, generating 156 production days, according to FilmL.A. Inc.
- Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- Batman The Dark Knight Rises
- Be Cool
- Blood In Blood Out
- Blue Thunder
- Chinatown
- Cleopatra Jones
- The Core
- Dirty
- Drive
- Escape From LA
- Freaky Friday
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Grease
- Gumball Rally
- Horrible Bosses
- Hot Rod Girl
- In Time
- The Italian Job
- It’s Alive!
- Last Action Hero
- My Family
- National Security
- Playing God
- Point Blank (1967)
- Point Break
- Repo Man
- Roadblock (1951)
- SWAT
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Terminator 3
- That Man Bolt
- Them!
- The Mask
- The Naked Gun
- The Purge: Anarchy
- To Live and Die in L.A.
- Transformers
- War of the Worlds
- Zombie Apocalypse
Description
Constructed in 1932, the 6th Street Viaduct is an important engineering landmark in the City of Los Angeles. It is one of a set of fourteen historic Los Angeles River crossing structures. With an overall length of 3,500 ft. it is the longest of these structures. It is a critical east-west transportation link between LA Art District and Boyle Heights and has been determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register.
The concrete in the 6th Street Viaduct has been subject to a chemical reaction, known as Alkai Silica Reaction (ASR) causing significant deterioration of the structure.