London Bridge In Arizona

[new in town]

Where my Family lives.

YouTube - Around London Bridge in Lake Havasu City
YouTube - London Bridge In Arizona

YouTube - London Bridge In Arizona and The Channel

[Sid]

Your family lives under a bridge?

[ultramanst]

and it wasn`t london bridge u got rippd off!

[dattia]

This entry in Wiki says it was...

London Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[compirate]

But I thought that was falling down






falling down





falling down.

[JMSVERO]

That is the London Bridge. My wifes boss's father was part of the team that brought the London Bridge to Lake Havusua in Arizona.

[Meathead]

I almost moved there about 16 years ago before we had kids. You could get a gorgeous home there for a small fraction of the price of lesser homes in CA.

I'm not so sure Needles CA would have suited me as a place to work, though. I love the desert, but when you work outside, climate is everything, so I moved to the Monterey area instead.

The bridge was very cool, though. Whoever chose to place it there was a genius, it really draws the tourists.

[new in town]

The bridge was very cool, though. Whoever chose to place it there was a genius, it really draws the tourists.

In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London placed the bridge on the market and began to look for potential buyers. Council member Ivan Luckin had put forward the idea of selling the bridge, and recalls: "They all thought I was completely crazy when I suggested we should sell London Bridge when it needed replacing." On 18 April 1968, Rennie's bridge was sold to the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch of McCulloch Oil for US$2,460,000. An often-repeated urban legend, denied by Luckin, is that McCulloch believed mistakenly that he was buying the more impressive Tower Bridge. As the bridge was disassembled, each piece was numbered to aid re-assembly; those markings can still be seen today. The bridge was reconstructed at Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and re-dedicated on 10 October 1971.

The reconstruction of Rennie's London Bridge spans a man-made canal that leads from Lake Havasu to Thomson Bay, and forms the centrepiece of a theme park in English style, complete with mock-Tudor shopping mall. Rennie's London Bridge has become Arizona's second-biggest tourist attraction, after the Grand Canyon.

The version of London Bridge that was rebuilt at Lake Havasu consists of a concrete frame with stones from the Old London Bridge used as cladding. The cladding stones used are 150 to 200 millimetres (6 to 8 inches) thick. The remaining stone was left at Merrivale Quarry at Princetown in Devon. When Merrivale Quarry was abandoned and flooded in 2003, some of the remaining stone was sold in an online auction