Inside Arizona's London Bridge

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Fifty years ago London Bridge was dismantled, shipped halfway across the world and rebuilt in Arizona.
When it was erected in Lake Havasu City the original stones from London were placed on to a hollow concrete shell.
The BBC was given a rare chance to look inside the bridge.
For more on how the bridge was moved go here • The American who bough...

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@boredweegie553 3 года назад

Watchin ghost adventures and found out London bridge has been in Arizona since 1967..I had no idea so I researched it..quite fascinating.

@ricardobjj24 Год назад

I remember going to Lake Havasu for vacations as a kid and my dad would take us to the London Bridge and I always thought it was so random to have in Arizona. My dad could never answer the question of why they put it in Arizona

@shanew3293 2 года назад

nice that they could save this wonderful bridge. Most Londoners wish they still had it

@acerimmer1023 Год назад

Most Londoners don't know we haven't lol

@ellanoe6251 2 года назад

I gotta see this thing before I falls down

@haberdashery148 Год назад

We are allways building bridges in Denmark. Though normally we build a bridge where the crossing is at the shortest. But here is a totally other concept. "Where do we find the widest cross over so that this beautifull bridge can fit in?". I LOVE IT!

@stonesdude154 Год назад

When they built the bridge there was no water. They had to make a river.

@anourtine6204 2 года назад

Do you have to drive on the opposite side?

@atomicdawg100 3 года назад

I doubt the original colonistits would have ever imagined that the original london bridge would one day literally be brought to the new world”.. they would have said “Nonsuch!” Im sure.. if you know the history of the bridge then pun intended ,)... i know its lame but its funny to me

@mariopensotti1015 2 года назад

Let alone those Humvees going over it

@mareksicinski3726 2 года назад

well it is not the *original one, it is the 19th century one, the second that had been built, not the first

@swoosh50 2 года назад

My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather and Familywas a Englishman who established and pioneer

@atomicdawg100 2 года назад

@@swoosh50 Are you sure about that 🤔..

@biggibbs4678 2 года назад

@@mareksicinski3726 the original London bridge was destroyed, so this is the oldest London bridge

@andreajackson7758 3 года назад

The pics of the "construction" looks more like an excavation. Unearthing an already existing bridge from a mud flood.

@MariaElena51185 2 года назад

@Andrea Jackson I think you’re right. Who is paying attention? Us mud flood /Tartaria researchers, that’s who..

@gauntlettcf5669 7 месяцев назад

Lmao, there are still people ALIVE TODAY that remember when it was standing in London, and there are pictures of it being dismantled and REBUILT in Arizona.

@kalez963 2 месяца назад

@@MariaElena51185 There is no proof for tartaria

@MariaElena51185 2 месяца назад

@@kalez963 as if Tartaria could be proved by other things than maps, buildings etc. By all means keep your opinion going 😂

@kalez963 2 месяца назад

@@MariaElena51185 The maps that show tartaria do so because it is a region... If there was a tartaria why is there no archeological proof and instead archeological proof for other nations that existed during the same time as tartaria??

@CrazyKuwaiti. 2 года назад

Looks like a Lovely Area

@revinhatol Год назад

_"Have a brew, have a screw, Havasu."_ - Lake Havasu City

@biokido575 8 месяцев назад

We have your bridge, England. what are you going to do?

@xtradense6229 7 месяцев назад

nothing

@biggestd1161 4 года назад

People are waking up hats off to Jon Levi

@jrho5431 7 месяцев назад

💥 The MOST interesting Financial Fact about the London Bridge project is that McCulloch and Wood actually made a huge PROFIT on this entire deal!! The bridge that you see in Arizona is only the exterior shell granite of the original bridge from London. You see in this video that when the bridge was rebuilt, they created an interior concrete core and rebuilt the exterior facade granite only. McCulloch then Sold the remainder of the granite stone to cemeterys for grave headstones and also the small granite memorabilia 'Pieces of the London Bridge' to many tourists, thereby making more money in the total bridge project than the total price he paid! You need to consider the Genius involved in the Highest Priced Antique purchase in History and you still make a profit on that Deal! And that is only the money they made on the Bridge, BEFORE the fortune McCulloch made on selling all the Real Estate of his new tourist destination, Lake Havasu City! You are all learning about one of the greatest modern stories of the creation of a new American city! And the Londoners who believed that gossip story about buying the Tower Bridge have No Clue about what a Great success this crazy dream has become!! McCulloch and Wood were brilliant visionaries!! 😂

@DrJetty 4 дня назад

The US media were mostly to blame for the story McCulloch bought the wrong bridge. Journalists and the American public think London Bridge was Tower Bridge and when they saw the bridge they thought he bought the wrong bridge. McCulloch knew exactly what he was buying and the money he was going to make from it. I have actually walked across the Bridge in London and in Lake Havasu City...

@novembrite9001 2 года назад

how did i just find this out i live in arizona

@SylveonMujigaeOfficial 2 месяца назад

Are you from the big cities?

@novembrite9001 2 месяца назад

@@SylveonMujigaeOfficial yes

@rockyracoon3233 5 лет назад

Cool!

@bizzyb9227 3 года назад

wheres the pics of putting it together

@Renwoxing13 Год назад

They are out there... but they really look like they dig it out of the ground instead of construct it

@S_dott 8 дней назад

When they buy London Bridge and expect Tower Bridge to arrive. Quite an expensive mistake 😅

@DrJetty 4 дня назад

The US media were mostly to blame for the story that multi millionaire McCulloch bought the wrong bridge. Journalists and the American public think London Bridge is Tower Bridge so when they saw the bridge they thought he bought the wrong bridge. McCulloch knew exactly what he was buying because he saw it before he bought it, self made millionaires are not that stupid. The money he was going to make from real estate was 5 times he paid for the bridge, I have actually walked across the Bridge in London and in Lake Havasu City... Reply

@seanvdl8919 4 года назад

does anyone know how tall it is

@alexander1995s 2 года назад

not that tall.

@jeannetruitt7176 Год назад

It looks pretty good..I wouldn't risk crossing it

@trwent Год назад

Thousands of people drive across it every day. It is not dangerous at all.

@MichaelYoutube85 25 дней назад

Never let them change the rails

@michaellee3903 2 года назад

This bridge is also very haunted from what I hear

@derekconstantino7759 2 года назад

You heard wrong. I lived on the island so i had to use the bridge daily and no one in havasu says its haunted

@tylerkriesel8590 Год назад

If it is, the ghosts gotta be confused as a MF wondering how they got to a desert on the other side of the planet 🤣🤣

@animationflow1055 Год назад

@@tylerkriesel8590 “Oh goodness.. mate.. look outside.. it appears we are in a bloody desert! Oh great heavens!”

@SusieQ-mn3qf 22 дня назад

@derekconstantino7759 Also grew up in Havasu. Not Haunted.

@steveg9088 Год назад

Never heard of this bridge till Ghost Hunters. I live a Arizona and NEVER heard of this. Embarrassing!

@dw3992 2 года назад

But why didn't they move it somewhere in England? Seems weird to bring it to the USA.

@EliF-ge5bu 2 года назад

Because some millionaire American bought it and wanted it to be a centerpiece of his real estate project.

@cambs0181 Год назад

The traffic got to be a bit of a problem in London, so they built a new bridge and put the old one up for sale. Some American millionaire at the time wanted it, so brought it, dismantled it and took it back to the US brick by brick.

@ogo4464 Месяц назад

In fact it was two millionaires who decided to build Havasu City. Robert P. McCulloch and C.V. Wood. And yes it is McCulloch as in the chainsaw brand!

@chumleyk 9 дней назад

City of London were replacing it and decided to sell it to the highest bidder. Americans like that sort of thing from the mother country.

@asensibleyoungman2978 Год назад

Who did he say was shitting in the cave?

@pointdrago4350 Год назад

Either the bobcat or the bats

@stonesdude154 Год назад

When I visited England they said some guy bought London Bridge when he thought he was buying Tower Bridge

@emperor_alisi 2 года назад

But why?

@jameshorner7816 Год назад

It was a mistake, the guy who bought it thought he was buying tower bridge.😂

@animationflow1055 Год назад

@@jameshorner7816 that’s a myth, he meant to buy London bridge. Tower bridge was never for sale.

@kolyan70 3 месяца назад

@@animationflow1055We get that Tower Bridge wasn’t for sale. People who don’t know think Tower Bridge IS London Bridge.

@CrazyKuwaiti. 2 года назад

Its the guy from MythBusters!

@pennylanebanks3881 2 года назад

Why? Why bring it from London to Az.?

@BroadwayRonMexico 2 года назад

Basically, a few guys bought a lot of land in the desert on the cheap from the federal government around what was now a reservoir lake created by the Parker Dam. They saw an opportunity to build a "beach" (of sorts) town in the desert around it, and sought to develop it but the idea was kind of a tough sell to buyers. At the same time, London was selling this antique bridge with a lot of history to it, so they bought it and made it into an attraction for their new town, and it ended up being what they needed

@bpnk5237 8 месяцев назад

Came here from map men

@heinerda4768 3 года назад

To less technical and historical Information 😖

@1.4142 2 года назад

bats?!

@BK_gamer_ 2 года назад

Chicken of the Cave!

@siggyretburns7523 8 месяцев назад

Bat poop is the most expensive fertilizer

@thevibesss7831 3 года назад

Us got no history like England

@EliF-ge5bu 2 года назад

And vice versa. England has no history like the US.

@thevibesss7831 2 года назад

Like wot

@mrwaverider5537 2 года назад

@@EliF-ge5bu haha wtf... English history has some of the richest and most interesting history in the world.

@EliF-ge5bu 2 года назад

@@mrwaverider5537 are you British? I am just pointing out that each country has its own history, and people say the US has no history. Quite the opposite, in fact. For a country do young, it has a very unique history.

@billpotter7162 Год назад

That's b*******. My ancestors moved here from England in colonial times so I can claim America's history from the 17th century and I can claim British history for anything prior.

@MistakenMystery 3 года назад

Brick by brick my ass. That bridge was already there. You can see pictures of it being dug out of the mud

@animationflow1055 Год назад

It’s literally from London mate. Dunno how that could’ve gotten there. They literally moved it brick by brick to Arizona and reconstructed it there. It’s not rocket science to figure it out.

@REALRichardNixon_1913 Год назад

@@animationflow1055because there's this goofy conspiracy theory where people like him think that the world went through a giant mud flood In the 1850s basically flat earth where you can't destroy the entire theory by just using more than 6 of your braincells

@James.woofer Год назад

😂😂yeh you lot thought you buying tower bridge 😂 easy mistake people even today call tower bridge London Bridge 😂

@animationflow1055 Год назад

That was a myth, he meant to buy London bridge.

@DrJetty 4 дня назад

The US media were mostly to blame for the story that multi millionaire McCulloch bought the wrong bridge. Journalists and the American public think London Bridge is Tower Bridge so when they saw the bridge they thought he bought the wrong bridge. McCulloch knew exactly what he was buying because he saw it before he bought it, self made millionaires are not that stupid. The money he was going to make from real estate sales around the area was 5 times he paid for the bridge; I have actually walked across the Bridge in London and in Lake Havasu City...