So we are in Brockville for a picnic on lawns of the waterfront parks and wandering around checking out the playgrounds, the caboose and that jet on a concrete stick. Somewhere around 1968 there was a big thing for putting jets on concrete sticks everywhere.
This one is right on the harbour spit protecting the marina and when the kids are running around, I notice some loose wiring and the jaunty angle of the jet.
I guess that when you put these puppies up 36 years ago you may not have kept someone around just to maintain the set-up. In the lower picture you see the sheered metal, the rounded concrete, the open space. Yikie-doodles.

Comments
Cyn - May 17, 2004 2:12 PM
There's one in Moncton too, at Centennial Park. Same vintage plane. Must of been some kind of government initiative for preserving defunct aircraft at city parks.
Alan - May 17, 2004 2:35 PM
Get a photo of the joint between the pillar and plane next time you are there, Cyn.
Cyn - May 17, 2004 4:04 PM
I will. Would that make it a joint effort?
Alan - May 17, 2004 4:19 PM
Let's create the "Canadian Jet on a Concrete Stick Volunteer Task Force" towards all such joint efforts. You can be General Secretary and I will be Chairperson of the Supreme Council. We will advocate nationally for the safe maintenance of all jets on concrete sticks so that future generations may know that once their forefathers put jets on concrete sticks. I know there is one by the 401 at Trenton, Ontario. Perhaps I will cook up a family trip that way soon.
Cyn - May 17, 2004 11:11 PM
Why does the girl always have to be the 'secretary'?
Alan - May 17, 2004 11:23 PM
Fine - <i>you</i> be the Chairperson of the Supreme Council and I will be General Secretary. I didn't know this organization was going to go all Wisconsin Lutheran so quickly.
portland - May 18, 2004 12:52 AM
i wish they'd put more things on sticks. pakistan is known for its rugs, maylasia for its carvings, etc. - we could be known for our things on concrete sticks. it's an art form.
Cyn - May 18, 2004 9:48 AM
Thank you Alan. You are very easy...to work with. To think things would go 'Bank of Montreal' so quickly.
Alan - May 18, 2004 9:55 AM
Now we need to work out a 74 page set of association by-laws. Do you want to prepare the first draft?
Cyn - May 18, 2004 10:25 AM
It's all about delegating...know any lawyers we could ask to be on the board?
Alan - May 18, 2004 11:45 AM
I will check the rolodex.
Cyn - May 18, 2004 12:04 PM
Tanks. I mean planes. (groan)
Alan - May 18, 2004 12:10 PM
We are mentioned in this week's Carnival of Canucks, you know. This whole jets on concrete sticks thing is going to explode into the public imagination. I am sure of it.
Arthur - May 18, 2004 1:38 PM
This whole jets on concrete sticks thing is going to explode into the public imagination. I am sure of it.
Where can I buy this 'jet on a stick'?
Alan - May 18, 2004 2:02 PM
You do not buy one but only record and admire them and seek to act as lay person adoptive parent. We need a Nova Scotian delegate to the volunteer corps. I am delicate negotiations visavis a Toronto representative in relation to to a certain WWII bomber on a stick on the Toronto waterfront where I spent many a happy day as a lad on the wriggly-jiggly slides, clambering over dinosaurs and being sent up the river to the Mexican jail. If you join, you need a silly title and must promise to find a jet on a stick - though propeller planes will be accepted as well in the heritage division of the association.
Ghost of a flea - May 18, 2004 6:02 PM
Consider me signed up. I will take on the duties of Subcomandante Insurgente for the Canadian Jet on a Concrete Stick Volunteer Task Force (Lancaster Bomber Investigation Brigade).
Alan - May 18, 2004 6:24 PM
Fabulous. The Greeting Committee will be receiving from 2200 at the rotunda.
Arthur - May 18, 2004 6:47 PM
You do not buy one but only record and admire them and seek to act as lay person adoptive parent.
There's one right over at the 102, close to the airport... what is that industrial park called again [it's on the tip of my tongue], oh yes.. Aerotech business park! But anyways...
If you join, you need a silly title and must promise to find a jet on a stick
I know it's there. Can I be a Voluntary Associate-Missionary of The Royal Dutch Nova Scotian Chapter for the Canadian Jet On A Concrete Stick Task Force?
Alan - May 18, 2004 8:39 PM
Brrrreeeeeeeellllliant, Arthur! I remember that one. I think it is a Voo-doo. Vietnam era fighter for the Canadian Air Force. I think your title is <i>zeer glansrijk</i> or perhaps <i>zeer schitterend</i>. You tell us at muster.
Cyn - May 19, 2004 12:46 AM
This is as geeky as it gets. I love you guys. Ya bunch of gad damn bunch 'a freakinn' nerds. I'm so close to jumping in my car and taking a trip over to Moncton to take a pic of the jet at Centennial Park...if the gas prices weren't so friggin' high....ooo...I'd be there...
Arthur - May 19, 2004 7:46 AM
...if the gas prices weren't so friggin' high....ooo...I'd be there...
But I thought... that... with the Internet you can go to any place, anywhere and anytime you wanted?
Bigjonstud - November 20, 2008 8:47 PM
Update in the Jetsickle in Peterborough, Ont.: It's been removed for an apparent repainting, to be repositioned I don't know when. I have film shots mid-removal in September. I think it will have photo radar installed when it returns.
BJS
Alan - November 20, 2008 9:06 PM
Big Jon!