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Forty miles southwest of Kingman, ten miles from the California
border, a detour south brings you to one of the more bizarre sights of
the American desert the old gray stone of London Bridge , reaching out
to an artificial island across the stagnant waters of the dammed
Colorado River at LAKE HAVASU CITY . It has to be said that it looks a
hell of a lot better here, with the Chemehuevi Mountains as a backdrop,
than it ever did on the River Thames. The resort's developer, Robert P.
McCulloch, bought the bridge (under the impression it was Tower Bridge
or so the story goes) for 2.4 million dollars in the late 1960s, and
painstakingly shipped it across the Atlantic chunk by chunk before
reassembling it over a channel dug to divert water from Lake Havasu,
creating an island on the other side of the bridge known as Pittsburgh
Point.
Among several good-value restaurants is Shugrue's , in the Island
Fashion Mall at the end of London Bridge (tel 928/453-1400), which
serves fresh fish, salads and pasta.
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