[monkeyshine]

There's a story I heard, from a fairly reliable source many years ago, that the guy who bought the London Bridge thought he was buying the Tower Bridge. When he realized he didn't buy the right bridge he set it up on cheap Arizona land having figured it was already a lost cause.

Tower Bridge:

London Bridge, in Arizona:

[Loud Mime]

I was just there yesterday. That place has grown! I might be moving there.

[Don W]

That is another one of those demonstrably false apocryphal “Stupid rich American” stories. Mr. McCulloch knew exactly what he was buying.

[Aria]

We used to go to boat races there before and after the bridge arrived. My husband crashed a time or two. We usually went during Thanksgiving when it was mostly windy but not boiling hot.

When the bridge came our company did some work on it and we ended up with a piece of granite from the bridge - that I think somehow got lost recently. It wasn’t much to look at anyway.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Its a myth that McCulloch (the guy who bought the bridge) denied when he was alive. The guy wouldn’t have spent millions of dollars not knowing what he was getting.

I’m sure he wasn’t impressed with being the cause for the phrase ‘I’ve got a bridge for sale’ to be coined.