London Bridge -- Is NOT Falling Down!

We've driven through Lake Havasu City in Arizona a couple of times, but have never stopped and spent any time here -- and we've NEVER gone to see London Bridge! Our good friends Bill and Leslie spent some time here earlier this winter and made us curious enough to go take a look.



According to the brochure: "This bridge in Arizona is a reinforced concrete structure that is clad in the original masonry of the 1830s London Bridge that spanned the River Thames. That bridge was dismantled in 1967 and 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 in order 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."



So much of the city has grown up around the bridge that you really can't get a good look at it from land. You can walk down across a parking lot and get a better glimpse --

It's hard to believe these massive spans were built in the early 1800s --

Up close you can even see the remains of last year's swallow nests --

It is a hokey tourist thing, but it is impressive and worth taking a look at! Thanks Leslie and Bill for shaming us into going to take a look!