A million dollar story








I was asleep and just dreamed a story that would make a great pixar movie.

Setting a small rural community in the late 40's

A group of kids (Think our gang meets the goonies) get thrown out of their club house (The basement of one of the kids houses) And so looking around for somewhere to play/hang out decide to build a bridge over to a small island in the river.

Cam: a tall spindly kid who's pants are always to short who's a dreamer type (Steve jobs / Bob barker comes up with the idea.

Tyler / Ty: a short stout alpha male type (Terry Bradshaw / mickey Rooney ) Asks his uncle who works for the railroad for the lumber, from a old depot the railroad tore down. The wood is just going to be burned anyway so the uncle tells him to go ahead and take whatever he wants.

Ben: a classic beta male strong silent and good humored

Betty Ann: A tomboy we a lot of brains, fishing worms in one pocket and a slide rule in the other quick witted and strong willed

The rest of the gang are more or less comedy relief

Mr. Pasternak: The project goes as planned, and the bridge to the small island in the river is almost finished; when a local a poor immigrant who lives on the wrong side of the tracks / River discovers the kids build the bridge. And jokingly asks if they are building it for him, since he has to walk 6 miles out of his way to cross the river and buy food at the local / only grocery store. Hearing his plight the kids instantly decide to do just that, however the rest of the river is much wider, deeper and swifter than what they have already crossed

Uncle Emery: Tylers uncle is recruited after some argument to help them span the rest of the river, the railroad man enlist the help of some railroad construction workers. And help's the gang build a cable suspension bridge over the rest of the river and poor locals like Mr. Pasternak gratefully use it.

Time pass's the little town grows, open fields become house shops etc etc... However the little plot of land in the circle of it all stay's undeveloped, because who build the bridge is forgotten. It's on public land and the city thinks it's being taken care of by the feds, however it's just Ben who still lives nearby and take care of the bridge and land around it in his spare time.

Mayor Byden: A former land developer and now greedy politician, hear a rumor from a staffer (offspring of one of the old gang) That the bridge and land are not in fact federal land but public land, the mayor knows the one spot of undeveloped land is worth a small fortune. And so plots to uncover the true story and then take the land for the city and sale it to the highest bidder. He goes to one of his stooges in the local media with the story claiming he wants to honor the kids now adults. He gets them all to come to a grant event and tell their story gives them a small award and has the bridge destroyed at the same time. Everything is going as planned until the missing member of the old gang steps out to say a few words. Cam then spills the beans about the whole plot of why the mayor wanted to find them and what is going to happened etc etc. However Cam is a very rich guy he tells the crowd that although his name isn't on it most likely every computer, digital camera or small phone they are using he invented. He then explains that when the Mayor put the land up for sale he brought it... paying three times the market value to be sure he got it. And that he is going to turn it into a free public park Friendship bridge park and that the bridge isn't going anywhere!

Happy ends families enjoying the park... mayor indited