Ha! Lake Havasu City is largely where I grew up -- fun to see a link in HN. Havasu is a huge party town, so often throughout the summer you'd see hundreds of boats and drunk partiers around the bridge. Really weird sight.<p>The movie Piranha 3D was filmed in Havasu. Don't remember if they feature the bridge.
There's this crazy thing that always strikes me about Wikipedia articles. I read or skim through the text in a linear way, out of habit. Until inadvertently, I get to the "In Popular Culture" section, and it seems the article turns on me and attacks me with ridiculously nerdy content.<p>Pinky and the Brain? Heck, this is beyond nerdy. I don't even know how to qualify it, but it always makes you snap back to the fact that you are not reading a normal run-of-the-mill encyclopaedia. (And it makes me wonder, who even takes the time to write this kind of incongruous cross-referencing?)
I lived in Lake Havasu City for a while as a kid - I've always found it amusing to tell people about the London Bridge in the middle of the desert.
Growing up in Austin, I remember my dad telling me about this after hearing the lyrics to the song they used for the theme for Austin City Limits (the PBS show not the festival). Good ol' Texas country.<p>"Well, when you're down on your luck,
and you ain't got a buck,
in London you're a goner.
Even London Bridge has fallen down,
and moved to Arizona"<p>London Homesick Blues, Gary P. Nunn
Well they should buy the Thames Tunnel to go with it: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel</a>
That bridge is so much more aesthetically pleasing than its replacement. There is an oft repeated myth that they bought the wrong bridge by mistake but that is clearly denied in the article.