Word: havasu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., on the banks of the Colorado River, time is measured in spectaculars as well as in seconds. There is, for example, a celebrity tennis tournament in March, a sailboat regatta in April, a water-skiing meet in June. As a special added attraction this year, there was the formal dedication of London Bridge, imported block by block from the banks of the Thames. When it comes to truly big splashes, though, nothing quite matches the Outboard World Championship...
...purchase of the London Bridge, which was not exactly falling down into the Thames but was badly in need of replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
...project, after spending $5,500,000. Long Beach officials are now negotiating with a possible replacement, McCulloch Oil Corp., a company with some experience in British hand-me-downs. Two years ago McCulloch bought London Bridge and is reconstructing it as a tourist lure for its new town, Lake Havasu City, on the east bank of the Colorado River. "I still think the project is a good idea," says Long Beach City Manager John Mansell. "There are few births that don't give a little trouble...