Picture of London Bridge being built

**Slacker** · 02-01-2014, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Mateo

Learn something new everyday. Guess I can go to bed now.

Yeah you need a rest,,,lol

**Slacker** · 02-01-2014, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by gn7

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.

Yeah the City does have Granite block for back-up and see them around town in road mediums.

**gn7** · 02-01-2014, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Slacker

Yeah the City does have Granite block for back-up and see them around town in road mediums.

I'd love to know how much that cost Walt's insurance company to have the railing a spindles rebuilt.
There was a truck that crashed thru the railing before that, but the city had to pickup the tab on that one. They crashed clean thru and landed upside down on the bottom of the channel and died. Not sure of the city was able to tap their insurance or if they even had any.
They have a pretty good stash of the stuff out in the desert behind town as well.