Not the Thames
by Mary Lee Dereske
Title
Not the Thames
Artist
Mary Lee Dereske
Medium
Photograph - Artistic Natural Photography
Description
This bridge has seen many things we can never even imagine. What other bridge has been moved from London to the desert? Imagine going from the British Isles to a land where palm trees grow.
This 1831 London Bridge was slowly sinking under the weight of modern day traffic when it was purchased by Robert P. McCullock in 1968. Paying $2.46 million for the bridge, he paid $7 million to have it disassembled and shipped across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up to California, and then to the southwestern deserts of Arizona. Here it was reassambled as a tourist attraction. The water flowing beneath it is now part of the man made reservori of Lake Havasu.
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October 20th, 2020
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