Video of the London Bridge (NEW)

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:31 -0700, richard put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:52:41 +0000, Mark Goodge wrote:
>>
>> It's also a bit of an urban myth that the bridge was rebuilt in its
>> entirety in Arizona. The Arizona bridge is a concrete framework, with
>> just the cladding consisting of stone from the demolished London
>> bridge.
>
>I think Mr. McCulloch would slap you silly for that.
>Some years ago, before the internet, there was a video out of the
>adventure. In which the man himself explained that they took every brick
>off one by one, numbered them, then reassembled the bricks as they were in
>Arizona.

Mr McCulloch needs to edit the Wikipedia entry, then:

The original stone was used to clad a concrete structure, so that
the bridge is no longer the original it is modeled after.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_...ke_Havasu_City)

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Mark Goodge wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:31 -0700, richard put finger to keyboard and
> typed:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:52:41 +0000, Mark Goodge wrote:
>>> It's also a bit of an urban myth that the bridge was rebuilt in its
>>> entirety in Arizona. The Arizona bridge is a concrete framework, with
>>> just the cladding consisting of stone from the demolished London
>>> bridge.
>> I think Mr. McCulloch would slap you silly for that.
>> Some years ago, before the internet, there was a video out of the
>> adventure. In which the man himself explained that they took every brick
>> off one by one, numbered them, then reassembled the bricks as they were in
>> Arizona.
>
> Mr McCulloch needs to edit the Wikipedia entry, then:
>
> The original stone was used to clad a concrete structure, so that
> the bridge is no longer the original it is modeled after.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_...ke_Havasu_City)

I don't think the Havasu bridge is even as long as it was in the Thames.

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Mark Goodge > wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:31 -0700, richard put finger to keyboard and
>typed:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:52:41 +0000, Mark Goodge wrote:
>>>
>>> It's also a bit of an urban myth that the bridge was rebuilt in its
>>> entirety in Arizona. The Arizona bridge is a concrete framework, with
>>> just the cladding consisting of stone from the demolished London
>>> bridge.
>>
>>I think Mr. McCulloch would slap you silly for that.
>>Some years ago, before the internet, there was a video out of the
>>adventure. In which the man himself explained that they took every brick
>>off one by one, numbered them, then reassembled the bricks as they were in
>>Arizona.
>
>Mr McCulloch needs to edit the Wikipedia entry, then:
>
> The original stone was used to clad a concrete structure, so that
> the bridge is no longer the original it is modeled after.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_...ke_Havasu_City)

That's the story they tell at the Tower of London as well (along with
making fun of McCulloch by claiming he thought he was getting the
rather more ornate Tower Bridge, which isn't true). The National Park
Service backs it up

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/a...ata/az0474.pdf

I think only the cladding stones were shipped over in the first place;
the interior structural stone was not.
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