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California Statues (page 10)

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Little League Player
San Bernardino, CA
 Baseball Player
San Francisco, CA
The Little League Player statue is about 15 feet tall. It stands near the Western Regionals Little League Baseball Park. The statue has been there since at least 2003. [map]

This bronze Baseball Player is located at AT&T Park and depicts Willie Mays. Mays played for the San Francisco Giants. The sculpture was produced by William Behrends in 2000. [map]

Eadweard Muybridge
San Francisco, CA
 Philo Farnsworth
San Francisco, CA
The two bronze sculptures were installed at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in 2008. They were created by Lawrence Noble. Eadweard Muybridge is considered the Father of Cinema and Philo Farnsworth is considered the Father of TV. [map]

Taster
San Francisco, CA
The nine-foot-tall, bronze Taster sculpture was created by Spero Anargyros and installed in 1992 inside the Hills Brothers Coffee Factory building courtyard. The building now houses other offices but the sculpture remains. The figure was first developed in 1898 and appeared on the company's coffee cans in 1900. [map]

Michelin Man
San Jose, CA
This Michelin Man statue and giant tire were installed around 2020 at Calderon's Tires. [map]

Olympic Black Power
San Jose, CA
This Olympic Black Power sculpture commemorating the awards ceremony at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. It was created by Rigo 23 and installed in 2005 at San Jose University. The San Jose State University African-American student athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlo, wore black socks and raised black-gloved fists in a black power salute to draw attention to the injustices of people of color in the U.S. For more, see this website. [map]

Pirate
San Pedro, CA
This Pirate statue is installed at San Pedro High School next to the football field. The statue is 21 feet tall. It is believed to have been built in the early 1960s. It had been located in several places in town over the years. It was moved to the high school in 2003. The pirate is the school's mascot. The statue was restored in 2012 by Janice Olivieri as a Girl Scout Gold Award project. For more, see this website.

Pirate
Fresno, CA		 Pirate
Dillon Beach, CA
This Pirate statue in Fresno is located at Blackbeard's Family Entertainment, an amusement park.

This Pirate statue in Dillon Beach appears to be bronze. It was installed here sometime after 2001. The statue is meant to represent George Dillon who settled here in 1858 and founded the village. The original statue was stolen and this is a replica. There is a bit of fiction about the original statue being inside a pizza shop in Petaluma, CA but that was entirely fabricated. [map]

Caveman & Cavewoman
Santa Cruz, CA
 Marines
Santa Maria, CA
The Caveman and Cavewoman photo-op statues are located on the Boardwalk. There are also a Caveman and Cavewoman statues on the Sky Ride and Cave Train Ride. The Cave Train Ride was built in 1961. I don't know how old these statues are. They appear to be recent additions to me. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, 3, and 4.

These two Marine statues are owned by a private collector and displayed in his backyard. There was another one like this in Bethesda, MD. If you know of any others, I'd love to hear from you. These are the six-foot-tall models. They were also produced in three-foot-tall models.

Donald W. Douglas
Santa Monica, CA
This Donald W. Douglas sculpture was installed in front of the Museum of Flying in 2009 under a Douglas DC-3 airplane. It depicts the founder of Douglas Aircraft and his dog Wunderbar, a Weimaraner. It was created by Yossi Govrin Yehudain. [map]

Motorcycle Police Officers
Santa Paula, CA
These bronze sculptures pay tribute to the Motorcycle Police Officers who alerted the city about the approaching flood from the St. Francis Dam collapse in 1928. "The Warning" sculptures were created by Eric Richards and installed in 2003. [map]

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