Well It’s Not Falling Down, But

We’ve been HERE

Welcome to London Bridge as sold to the Americans in the 1960s, not as previously believed that they bought the wrong bridge. History bit states;

London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It was built in the 1830s and formerly spanned the River Thames in London, England. It was dismantled in 1967 and relocated to Arizona. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge, which was purchased 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 Colorado River with the main port of Lake Havasu City.

The major past time here appears to involve getting in your 40ft speed boat (minimum length, but longer is better), with twin V8 or V12 engines and revving it as you travel at 2mph up the water, with scantily clad women dancing vigorously out of tune to your ghetto blaster strapped to the hood. And when you have done this, you turn round and go the other way, drink and repeat (picture a high street in the UK with little boys in their cars going up and down and you have the idea). Funny to watch.

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