Lone Sailor Memorial
The Lone Sailor Statue, overlooking Long Beach Harbor from Bluff Park, is an exact replica of the bronze sculpture created by Stanley Bleifield in 1984 and installed at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1987. The Navy Memorial’s Statue City Program began in 1997 with the placement of a Lone Sailor statue at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, IL. The Long Beach statue is 1 of 19 statues installed across the United States, but is the only one that looks out to sea. The memorial, comprised of the bronze statue and surrounding plaza of etched, commemorative bricks, resulted from a 2-year fund raising effort by a local Lone Sailor Memorial Committee. It was dedicated on December 11, 2004, to “Honor, Recognize, and Celebrate the men and women of the Sea Services, past, present, and future.”
Bluff Park, Long Beach, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt