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| This shows how the blocks were numbered so they could be reassembled in AZ |
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| Lake Havasu |
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| Lake Havasu |
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| Lake Havasu |
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lake Havasu, AZ
Today we spent the day at Lake Havasu. In 1967, London had to sell its famous London Bridge. Lake Havasu City founder Robert P. McCulloch found a new home for the London Bridge in Arizona. It is the reconstruction of the 1831 London Bridge that spanned the River Thames in London, England until it was dismantled in 1967. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge, that was bought by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of London. McCulloch had exterior granite blocks from the original bridge numbered and transported to America, to construct the present bridge in Lake Havasu City, a planned community he established in 1964 on the shore of Lake Havasu. The bridge was completed in 1971 (along with a canal), and links an island in the lake with the main part of Lake Havasu City.
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I was enjoying all of the beautiful pictures - the I came to the scary ones of the ruffians! Aunt Linda, you really should be more careful about who you pose with!
ReplyDeleteI know! These two guys keep following me around! Guess I'll have to keep them:)
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