This week's photo for Watery Wednesday takes us to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. This is the London Bridge, originally built in London in 1831, and purchased in 1962 by Robert McCulloch, the founder of Lake Havasu and the chairman of McCulloch Oil Corporation. He wanted the bridge to serve as a tourist attraction to his retirement real estate development.
The bridge was carefully disassembled and each piece was numbered. Reassembly began in 1968, and finished in 1971. There was an "English Village" with shops and restaurants by the bridge, but sadly, it was pretty run down when we visited it.
This is a lighthouse on Lake Havasu that I saw while we were on a tour of the lake.
awesome! I would love to go there someday.
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Never thought to find a London Bridge in the US :-) Nice pictures
ReplyDeleteInteresting pics. London Bridge in the US. Glad I've learned something today. :)
ReplyDeletePat - great pictures. Bill's brother and s-i-l live in Havasu so we've been there a few times, but never did I get such good pictures of the bridge. I can't talk and chew gum (or take pictures) at the same time.
ReplyDeleteSallie
Last time I saw London Bridge it was in London!
ReplyDeleteGreat picture!
Sunny :)
Cool photos and neat story about the London bridge. I lov ethe lighthouse too.
ReplyDeletethanks for the amazing bridge story! Its beautiful! And what a cute little lighthouse!
ReplyDeleteLove this shots Pat!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Dirk - something new to me.
I love that lighthouse!
ReplyDeleteI looove Arizona -- Sedona, especially. It's been a couple of years since I vacationed there. I have yet to see to the bridge and the rest of AZ, all the more reason to go back!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit. Have a good Friday!
Great shots of the bridge Pat. The last time we were in Laughlin, NV we decided to take a drive down to Lake Havasu just to see the bridge. I remember that a lot of the shops in the English Village were vacant.
ReplyDeleteI just saw something about that bridge on tv! very interesting.
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