Oh my, what an amazing selection of raw and polished crystals, minerals, fossils, petrified wood, glass and so much more! One can purchase Geodes that can be cracked for you on site! En route, we stop in the quirky little town of Quartzite, Arizona to visit T-Rocks, a geologists’ mecca! We are on the move today from Tucson to Bullhead City in Arizona. The bridge links an island in the Colorado River to the main part of Lake Havasu City. Reconstruction of London Bridge in Arizona takes over three years and the project is completed in late 1971. Today, London Bridge in Lake Havasu City is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the bridge that once spanned the River Thames in London. On SeptemLondon’s Lord Mayor, Sir Gilbert Inglefield, lays the foundation stone. The bridge arrives in pieces at the Port of Long Beach, California and is transported overland to Lake Havasu City, where re-assembly begins. In 1967, the bridge is dismantled, its facing stones are each numbered and transported to a quarry in Devon in England where some five to nine inches (12 to 22 cm) are sliced off many of the original stones. He convinces McCulloch to buy it and bring it to the Lake Havasu area to attract prospective land buyers. McCulloch’s estate agent learns that London Bridge, spanning the River Thames in England, is no longer sound enough to support the increased load of modern traffic crossing it every day and is for sale. The one problem with McCulloch’s plan is that estate agents can’t attract prospective buyers because the land is far from population centres and has a very hot and arid climate. In 1964, Robert McCulloch, chairman of McCulloch Oil Corporation, founded a retirement development project on the east shore of Lake Havasu, a large reservoir on the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona, some two hours’ drive from Las Vegas. This car is considered an almost perfect Thunderbird and in 1982 its appraised value was $100,000!Ī 1955 Buick Century, four-door Riviera. Laughlin lives in the Penthouse Suite on the top floor of his hotel.Ībove: a rare 1955 Ford Thunderbird. Today, Laughlin’s original site has developed into the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada with over 1400 rooms, a bowling centre, restaurants, shops and an exhibition of the Classic Cars he collected over the years. Laughlin suggests Riverside and Casino but the inspector suggests Laughlin because of their common irish heritage! Play at the casino is on twelve slot machines and two live gaming tables and accommodations are available in only four of the motel’s eight rooms Laughlin’s family occupies the remaining four.Ī US Postal Service inspector asks Laughlin to give a name to the area post office in order to receive mail. In less than two years, the Riverside Resort is entertaining guests with gambling and all-you-can-eat chicken dinners for 98 cents. Soon after his flight, he buys an eight-room riverfront motel on 6 ½ acres for $250,000. Laughlin moves to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950s, and buys his first casino, the “101 Club.” While flying his private plane over the California/Arizona/Nevada tri-state area near the Colorado River, he sees the potential for a resort destination. With the profits he buys slot machines for installation in hunting lodges. In 1931, Don Laughlin is born in Minnesota and works winters during his youth as a fur trapper.
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