October 10

It seemed like a good idea at the time.
It In 1968 Robert McCullough, founder of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, bought the London Bridge. It would be more accurate to say that he bought a bridge that happened to be in London, England. It was not the structure that is generally featured in brochures and post cards, that one is named Tower Bridge, but one that was located conveniently nearby. This bridge had been built in 1831 and by the late 60s, it was no longer capable of handling the flow of traffic that crossed over it. McCullough had the bridge dismantled, carefully numbering each piece as it came down and then had all this stuff shipped to Lake Havasu to be the centerpiece of a development he was building. An artificial lake was built and the bridge reassembled. On October 10, 1971, the mandatory ribbon cutting ceremony was held and the London Bridge Resort and Convention Center was officially opened to the public. Things have not gone quite the way McCullough planned and the site has been in continual decline ever since opening.