Does anyone know where the names plaques are at the Fisherman's statue? If they are being repaired, why now and not in the middle of the winter? Tourists
are looking for them and are very disappointed to find them missing!
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Name plaques at fisherman's statue
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 Beachlover8 |
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(06/18/08 07:09 PM) |
Last Edited By: Beachlover8 06/18/08 07:16 PM.
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leftwingnut |
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(06/18/08 07:38 PM) |
Are they bronze?
If so, probably got ripped off for their copper content... I've been wondering when the huge bronze plaques at Stage Fort were gonna disappear in the night... To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.-Theodore Roosevelt, The Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918 |
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Foresta Gump |
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(06/18/08 07:40 PM) |
Yes, the name plaques are being repaired at this time...................as for the "why now" I have no clue.
'LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES...YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET'
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drinkycrow |
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(06/18/08 09:32 PM) |
leftwingnut wrote: Junkies stole them to sell for scrap.
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ski kitty |
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(06/19/08 08:14 AM) |
Gap Lafata from the Cenotaph Committee says they will be back by Fiesta.
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Beachlover8 |
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(06/19/08 03:56 PM) |
Why didn't someone leave a sign explaining to the poor tourists who probably had this on their list of things to see what is going on? |
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ckcaney |
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(06/19/08 03:58 PM) |
Dear Tourist, gone fishing!!! Love, Gloucester
Yes, good point, it could have said temporarily removed for cleaning/maintenance. |
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Mothership |
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(06/19/08 09:27 PM) |
Beachlover8,
Why now you ask and why don't we have a sign? Well, I'm sorry to say this  but we sort of, kind of, in a round about way, do everything in this City
ass-backwards!
Unfortunately, for us, the tourists, and the people who do these things, I don't think it's intentional. That's almost scarier than doing it on purpose JMHO. 
"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice...I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL
BE HEARD." - Wm. Lloyd Garrison
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Beachlover8 |
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(06/28/08 08:18 PM) |
I can't believe Fiesta weekend is almost over.....the boulevard is packed with tourists and still no name plaques!
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LiaMarie |
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(06/28/08 08:41 PM) |
How easy would it have been to get some plastic placeholder ones made? Or at least put up a sign? Come on now.
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Roxie |
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(06/28/08 10:42 PM) |
It's not a city thing. They are volunteers .... they do what they can, when they can, when they have the funds. They expected the plaques to be back by
Fiesta ... stuff happens.
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Beachlover8 |
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(07/15/08 04:16 AM) |
Does anyone know any more about this? I thought they were going to be back by Fiesta?
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Muffyhowards |
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(07/15/08 04:22 AM) |
Lots of hard working honorable folks on them plagues. They better not be messed with! The sole of Gloucester lives on that bronze.
And then, there we stand alone naked to the world. The USA.
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Roxie |
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(07/15/08 05:11 AM) |
The volunteer committee expected the plaques to be back by Fiesta. There is a shortage of the bronze bolts needed to reinstall them. The committee has been
told the plaques should be back around now. People try their best ...... stuff happens.
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Y DEVELOP |
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(07/15/08 10:45 AM) |
Shortage of bronze bolts???
Why did they remove them anyway? Aren't you supposed let the metal get a patina? |
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Beachlover8 |
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(07/15/08 12:20 PM) |
I think it's great that volunteers were willing to do this....I just think summer was the wrong time of year!
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flounda |
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(07/15/08 12:23 PM) |
Gap Lafata from the Cenotaph Committee says they will be back by Fiesta.
---------------------------------- Yeah, 2009. |
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Muffyhowards |
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(07/15/08 01:53 PM) |
I believe Acid rain is deteriorating many bronze statues and plagues. Their is a process to preserve them.
And then, there we stand alone naked to the world. The USA.
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leftwingnut |
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(07/15/08 05:31 PM) |
They may have wanted to scrape off several layers of pigeon and gull shit as well...
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.-Theodore Roosevelt, The Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918 |
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brainfix |
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(07/15/08 11:37 PM) |
How can it take so long? Something is fishy about this story.
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Roxie |
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(07/16/08 05:51 AM) |
They went out in the spring, the plan was for them to be back by summer .... they're not and that's too bad, but geez ... there's not anything the
committee can do about it ...
Gloucester: Cenotaph plaques undergo cleaning Published: June 30, 2008 10:49 Lafata said the work - beginning with cleaning and sandblasting to remove the greenish oxidation to get back to the original bronze color - is complete, and the plaques have also been covered with a saltwater-repellent lacquer. They were removed with difficulty to the Paul King Foundry in Cranston, R.I., for the restorative maintenance, a process projected to cost the committee $17,000, Lafata said. But the reinstallation is delayed by a shortage of special order, bronze bolts, whose tops can be hidden by decorative brass rosette tops that once screwed in cannot be removed. That aesthetic addition to the cenotaph was an unfulfilled detail in the original order eight years ago. Lafata said he, members of the committee and the police had gotten numerous calls about the missing plaques. The Rhode Island foundry was waiting for the delivery of the bolts from Matthews International Corp., which was founded in Pittsburgh in 1850 by John Dixon Matthews, a skilled engraver who emigrated from Sheffield, England. Matthews cast the original plaques for the committee in 2000. Lafata said the project of transferring to bronze years of exhaustive research to find and verify the identities of the men who went "down to the sea in ships" and getting the plaques put up cost about $95,000. |
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