FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA The Honor to Mothers of the World, a statue that more recently stood outside the German-American Club, seen at a storage facility in Tampa on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS) This 73-year-old Mother’s Day statue needs a home TAMPA, Fla. — For six decades, it was a Mother’s Day tradition in Tampa to place flowers at the base of a six-foot sculpture depicting a mother holding a baby while her two small children reach up to hand her flowers. “It was sweet,” said Robin Nigh, manager of arts and cultural affairs for the city of Tampa.