Picture of London Bridge being built

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A lot people think that they used all the granite blocks to reconstruct the bridge but it is really a reinforced concrete bridge with the granite blocks on the outside. So it is not really original as it was in England plus it is about 100 ft. shorter. We have the pics here in our office of all the rebar for the bridge itself being installed.

I was going to ask all those that have a block of the bridge larger than they can pick up to raise their hand. The vast majority of the bridge is not there.
When the Village first opened, there was a shop that sold chunks of the granite the size of a baseball mounted on a piece of wood with a little brass plate that said it was a piece of the London Bridge with a etched drawing of the bridge. I bet they sold a zillion of those POS to foreign tourists from Europe.
When Walt, of Walt's Kawasaki crashed his Vette thru the guard rail and busted a few spindles, they made the new ones from used granite that is tucked away.
A lot of the granite never left England and still remains there today.

One of the superintendents that worked for Sundt on the "reassembly" built a house in Havasu and used slabs of the granite for the floor of his very large garage. He had it polished and sealed. Its pretty badass.