Open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Bedford Falls, New York
Established for Bedford Falls families

Bailey Bros. Building & Loan

A modest one-horse institution with one grand purpose: helping neighbors save, build, and own a proper home in Bedford Falls.

Thrift Accounts Home Loans Bailey Park Homes
A Word From The Office

A bankbook, a handshake, and a front porch.

The Bailey family business was kept open when Bedford Falls needed it most, with George Bailey carrying on Peter Bailey's belief that ordinary people deserve more than a lifetime in rented rooms.

Savings Shares

Regular deposits for families putting something aside for a rainy day, a wedding day, or the day a home of their own comes within reach.

Home Loans

Careful, practical mortgage lending for working people who can see the future from the steps of a house they helped make possible.

Building Loans

Construction-minded financing for sound small homes, local improvements, and the steady growth of a better Bedford Falls.

Wooden sign for Bailey Bros. Building and Loan.
A black and white film still of an old Bedford Falls house in winter.
Old Bedford Falls houses
A 1930 yellow taxi cab associated with the film, shown in a museum.
Service for a growing town
Bailey Park

Homes where rent money becomes a stake in tomorrow.

Bailey Park stands as the practical answer to Potter's Field: better-built homes at prices modest families can manage, and a chance for residents like the Martinis to put down roots with dignity.

We believe a town grows stronger when its people have porches, sidewalks, gardens, and neighbors who know one another by name.

Notice To Depositors

Your money is not locked in a vault. It is alive in Bedford Falls.

In Joe's house...

Part of one neighbor's savings helps put another neighbor under a roof. That is the plain arithmetic of a building and loan.

And in Kennedy's house...

Every payment, every share, every careful loan keeps Bedford Falls from becoming a place owned by one man.

Come By The Office

The door is open during banking hours.

No forms to fill out here. Write, telephone, or step inside and ask for George. Uncle Billy may answer first.

Address 768 Jefferson Ave.
Bedford Falls, NY 13149
Telephone 315-555-1212
Email GBailey@baileybrothersbl.com
Hours 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"No Bedford Falls family should have to wait for fortune before they can start building a life."
Research and image notes

This fictional page uses period-inspired copy based on film references to Bailey Brothers Building and Loan, George Bailey's management of the family business, and Bailey Park as affordable housing for working families.