![[flag of Glendale, California]](../images/u/us-cagld-l.gif)
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9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
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Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
Glendale’s flag has a bright yellow field with the city seal
slightly above the center. Below the seal appears CITY OF GLENDALE
in blue block letters. On a field of 4:6 units, the letters are half
of a unit in height, and stretch across the field for 5 units, centered
horizontally. The diameter of the seal is 2.3 units. It is divided into
four equal quarters on a yellow field by a slender four-pointed star, its
arms divided vertically into light blue and dark blue. Beginning with
the top ray, the blue colors alternate, beginning with light blue on the
hoist side of the ray, so opposing rays are exactly opposite in coloration.
Overlaid on the star’s center is a small, angular shield bordered in
yellow. On it is a dark blue peacock on a light blue field, seen from
behind, its head in profile toward the fly, and its tail reposing on the
ground behind it. Perched atop the shield is a highly stylized American
eagle all in yellow, wings outspread, and head lowered, peering toward
the fly. The first quarter shows Glendale’s city hall, white shadowed in
blue, with green bushes around it. The second quarter shows a yellow
California bear, outlined in blue and standing on green grass, a single
five-pointed star over its head, in imitation of the same figures on the
state flag. The third quarter shows a water pump in white, outlined in
brown, with blue water pouring from it, and enclosed in a blue ring. A
white fist clutches three blue bolts of lightning at 2 o’clock on the ring
above the water. The fourth quarter depicts the historic Casa Adobe in
blue with a yellow roof and green trees and shrubs around it and blue
mountains in the background.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
Chosen by Mayor Perkins.
Flag adopted: 2001 (official status uncertain).
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
Unknown
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[former flag of Glendale, California]](../images/u/us-cagld-g.gif)
![[former flag of Glendale, California]](../images/u/us-cagld-y.gif)
images by Masao Okazaki, 28 May 2023
The flag of Glendale appears to have two versions: a recent gold and green
version and an earlier yellow and version flag.
Recent photos of the gold and
green flag:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media
https://pbs.twimg.com/media
https://www.glendaleca.gov
Photo of yellow and white flag dated 2013
from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org
Masao Okazaki, 28 May 2023
The first flag of Glendale features only the shield element of the city seal on a pale yellow field, described as buff in old records, and bordered on all sides except the hoist with a border, described as “amethyst blue”, although more likely sapphire blue was meant. The distinctive angular shield is bordered in a pattern of yellow, blue, yellow. The shield’s field is a light blue; the peacock, in natural colors. On a field of 3 units by 3.5 units, the shield is 1 unit across, horizontally, in its center. Written in white, linked, calligraphic letters that vary between .5 and .25 units high, depending on the size of the letter, is Glendale, slanted from the mid-section of the shield to its upper quarter; centered across the bottom, in white script letters about one-fifth as high as the others, is California. The eagle perched on the shield’s top has patriotic wings, with 8 five-pointed white stars on blue over 6 red and 5 white stripes on its hoist wing, and 6 stars and an equal number of stripes on its fly wing. Below the shield is a heraldic ribbon in white, outlined in blue, with THE JEWEL CITY across it in dark blue.
This flag was designed by Hugh A. Maron, who won $100 in a contest
sponsored by Charles L. Peckham and business associates. It was officially
adopted by the city council on 18 September 1924, amid enthusiasm
for the city’s winning peacock float at the Tournament of Roses
that same year. (There is no indication that this ordinance has ever been
repealed officially.) The city seal was changed in the same legislation so
that the central portion of the previous seal, a star, would be replaced
by the new shield-and-peacock design, as on the current flag.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[seal of Glendale, California]](../images/u/us-cagl).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 February 2008
![[former flag of Glendale, California]](../images/u/us-cagldo-l.gif)
1:1 image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
This flag was designed by Hugh A. Maron, who won $100 in a contest
sponsored by Charles L. Peckham and business associates. It was officially
adopted by the city council on 18 September 1924, amid enthusiasm
for the city’s winning peacock float at the Tournament of Roses
that same year. (There is no indication that this ordinance has ever been
repealed officially.) The city seal was changed in the same legislation so
that the central portion of the previous seal, a star, would be replaced
by the new shield-and-peacock design, as on the current flag.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
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