Ralph Crawford
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
A bronze life size full-length statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger flexing his biceps wearing only a small pair of shorts.
Made: 2010
Dedicated: Mar 02, 2012
"The Austrian Oak won the Mr. World Professional Body Building Contest at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in September 1970. He also won another 13 world bodybuilding championships. Gaining worldwide fame as an action film star, he was Businessman, investor, author, and served as chairman of the President's council on physical fitness and sports. He was Elected the 38th governor of the great state of California serving from 2003 until 2011. In 1976 he founded what would become the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio "
"Reach for the next goal-never stop dreaming and stay hungry. Life's joy is in the doing".
400 N High St
Columbus, OH 43215
Franklin County
Bronze
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