03-05-2024, 11:27 PM
large statue in a park of a sailor kissing a woman
CITY OF SARASOTA
A depiction of where the Unconditional Surrender statue would be placed, between O'Leary's and Marina Jack's at Sarasota's Bayfront Park.
A giant statue modeled after an iconic photograph depicting a sailor and a woman kissing in Times Square at the end of World War II will continue to be prominently displayed along Sarasota Bay.
A statue commemorating the end of World War II will stay along Sarasota's Bayfront — but in a new location.
City commissioners voted 4 to 1 Monday to move the statue, Unconditional Surrender, away from planned road reconstruction to a park along Sarasota Bay.
The 26-foot-high statue was inspired by a famous photograph taken in New York's Times Square on V-J Day in 1945 of a World War II sailor bending over to kiss a woman. Some detractors have said that kiss was done without the woman's permission.
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