<P> On March 31, 1918 the bridge, then owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, was sold to the state governments and tolls were removed . The company was dissolved September 15, 1919 in New Jersey and June 9, 1920 in Pennsylvania . With the removal of tolls, the Lincoln Highway was moved to the bridge from the tolled Calhoun Street Bridge in 1920 . The bridge was then designated US 1 in 1927; it was replaced by the current bridge in 1928 . In 1952 US 1 was moved to the new Trenton - Morrisville Toll Bridge, and for a time the old bridge was designated Alternate US 1 . It is now marked as Business US 1, but only on the New Jersey side . </P> <P> The "TRENTON MAKES THE WORLD TAKES" sign on the south side of the bridge was installed in 1935 and first replaced in 1981 . In 2005, the sign was replaced with one featuring higher - efficiency neon lighting, with better waterproofing than the old sign, to help reduce maintenance costs . The slogan was originally "The World Takes, Trenton Makes" and came from a contest sponsored by the Trenton Chamber of Commerce in 1910 . S. Roy Heath, the former Heath Lumber founder and New Jersey State Senator, coined the phrase . </P> <P> The "TRENTON MAKES THE WORLD TAKES" sign can be seen in </P> <Ul> <Li> at the end of the film Human Desire (1954) starring Glenn Ford . He is a locomotive engineer who drives a train across the river and the sign can be seen in the background . </Li> <Li> the 1983 movie Baby, It's You as part of a road trip to the Jersey Shore </Li> <Li> the 1988 movie Stealing Home when Mark Harmon's bus crosses the bridge </Li> <Li> Trenton's Poor Righteous Teachers 1990 video of their song "Rock This Funky Joint" </Li> <Li> on the cover of The Cryptkeeper Five's 2004 album Trenton Makes . </Li> <Li> the 2007 film Rocket Science </Li> <Li> the unaired pilot of House </Li> <Li> the 2012 comedy film One for the Money, during the opening scene where Katherine Heigl's character narrates that she is from a "blue collar chunk o' Trenton called' The Burg ."' </Li> <Li> the 2012 Republican National Convention during Governor Chris Christie's Keynote Address </Li> <Li> the beginning of the Gangland episode about Trenton </Li> <Li> in the logo of the Trenton Titans . </Li> <Li> the title of the 2018 novel Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb . </Li> </Ul>

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