American entrepreneur from Missouri, best known for McCulloch chainsaws and for purchasing London Bridge, which he moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona - one of the cities he founded. He purchased it in 1968 as a unique attraction for his city. The removal and rebuild took 3 years.
Died in Los Angeles, of an accidental overdose of alcohol and barbiturates.
At the Picture source our image is captioned: "Robert McCaulloch {sic} standing in front of London Bridge as it is dismantled in 1968."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert P. McCulloch
Unveiled by the Duke of Gloucester, this is actually an "interpretation panel...
The long piece of text is attributed to Raleigh, here and all over the web, b...
The successful story of this group's project is told at the Picture Source website.
Historian and politician. Born in Novi Sad, Austria-Hungary (now Serbia). he entered political life in 1939 when the Serbian Cultural Club was established and became its president. When Germany att...
From the Picture source: "This is the site of the LEO Computers Society celebrating the World's first business computer. Membership of the Society is open to: all ex-employees of LEO Computers and ...
Pennant's London is a book about London published in the early 1800s. The Picture Source website does not make it clear that our picture is from Pennant's London, but it is such an apposite picture...
Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS. Born Suffolk. Proby was his mother's maiden name. 1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant. Apart from a few years his work there was main...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
In July 2018 the 5 VC plaques are laid into the esplanade in front of the war memorial, reading left to right: Parslow, Booth, Train, Say...
