Belle Isle's lost structures/formations

[Retroit]

I wish that large concrete parking lot "formation" in front of the Scott Fountain would get lost.

[LodgeDodger]

I wish that large concrete parking lot "formation" in front of the Scott Fountain would get lost.

AMEN! I hate that thing!

[EastsideAl]

I wish that large concrete parking lot "formation" in front of the Scott Fountain would get lost.

Absolutely. I look out my window and where I used to see green all I see is sun-baked empty pavement, like a damn shopping mall. Since Penske isn't having his race there anymore he really needs to come back and get that ugly thing out of there.

[Retroit]

Well, someone in prison did mention that Jimmy Hoffa might be buried under that slab of concrete.

[rodj44137]

Does anyone remember the jet fighter shell that was in a playground in the late '50's? If I remember right it was either an F-80 Shooting Star or the trainer T-33 Shooting Star. I just remember that as a small kid I could crawl right up the engine air intakes.

[One Shot]

Does anyone remember the jet fighter shell that was in a playground in the late '50's? If I remember right it was either an F-80 Shooting Star or the trainer T-33 Shooting Star. I just remember that as a small kid I could crawl right up the engine air intakes.

Now I that sounds cool. Anybody got pics of that???

[WKL]

I remember the plane. I think it might have been an F-84 or F-86, I remember swept wings - the Shooting Stars had straight wings.

[buildingsofdetroit]

I remember the plane. I think it might have been an F-84 or F-86, I remember swept wings - the Shooting Stars had straight wings.

Probably scrapped knowing how long neglected metal lasts around these parts.

[buildingsofdetroit]

Here's what I have on it from the 1950s:

"W.K. Muir Memorial Drinking Fountain
Location: Belle Isle - near Casino
Designed: Harrison Granite Co.
Description: Barre, Vermont Granite. Fountain surmounted with granite arch.
Costs, Dedications, etc. Erected in 1896. Estimated cost - $3,000"

Then next to it in flowing script someone penciled in: "[[Gone - No one can recall this or when removed.)" A Detroit mystery!

[Bullet]

I remember the jet! It was a display model of some kind on a pedestal. It would still be there if not for the vandals. They kept adding and adding parts to it until one day all it needed was a tank of gas. And that’s what happened: someone filled ‘er up, and since the keys were in it, they flew it away. That is why Belle Isle was once known as “Aircraft Island”