![[San Luis Obispo City flag]](../images/u/us-caslu2.gif)
image located by Dave Fowler, 16 June 2019
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image located by Dave Fowler, 16 June 2019
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"San Luis Obispo is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on the Central Coast. The city, referred to locally as SLO or "San Luis," is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County and is adjacent to California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). As of the 2000 census, the city population was 44,174." - from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luis_Obispo,_California.
Brief history:
"The City of San Luis Obispo serves as the commercial, governmental and cultural hub of California's Central Coast. One of California's oldest communities, it began with the founding of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra as the fifth mission in the California chain of 21 missions. The mission was named after Saint Louis, a 13th Century Bishop of Toulouse, France. (San Luis Obispo is Spanish for "St. Louis, the
Bishop".) It was first incorporated in 1856 as a General Law City, and became a Charter City in 1876." - from municipal website: www.ci.san-luis-obispo.ca.us/briefhistory.asp.
Valentin Poposki, 11 January 2008
On Wikipedia:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Flag_of_San_Luis_Obispo%2C_California.svg/1920px-Flag_of_San_Luis_Obispo%2C_California.svg.png
Elsewhere:
https://www.northstarflags.com/san-luis-obispo-ca-city-flags.html
https://www.123rf.com/photo_76851347_san-luis-obispo-city-flag-on-flagpole-california-state-flying-in-the-wind-isolated-on-white-backgrou.html
In use as a logo:
http://www.asi.calpoly.edu/images/asix/partners/logo_slo_city.png
I
was unable to locate a photo of it in use. Other variations seem to exist:
https://www.facebook.com/194567110553975/photos/a.209521402391879/765258570151490/?type=3&theater
Seal on blue field:
https://cdn1.gbot.me/photos/Em/gX/1532838160/-Postcard_of_San_Luis_Obis-20000000016320376-500x375.jpg%e2%80%8b
Dave Fowler, 16 June 2019
![[San Luis Obispo City flag]](../images/u/us-caslu.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 8 February 2009
The city flag was posted at the Waymarking site: (image archived
here). It is blue over yellow, with a silhouette of a bell in an archway.
Valentin Poposki, 11 January 2008
![[City Seal]](../images/u/us-caslu).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 30 May 2019
Source: https://i.etsystatic.com
For a good image of the seal see
http://www.ci.san-luis-obispo.ca.us/cityclerk/specialelection2005/mainpagespecialelection.asp.
Ned Smith, 31 July 2005
The municipal seal consists of the standard circular format. The background color of the outer ring is dark blue with gold external and internal bordering. At the top of the outer ring are the words 'CITY OF' and at the bottom 'SAN LUIS
OBISPO' in gold block lettering. At the 10 and 2 o'clock positions respectively are two small gold five-pointed stars. The central image is that of Mission San Luis Obispo itself. The structure is white, representing its stucco construction, with chocolate trim and gray archways and windows. Above the mission building is a robin's egg blue sky, while in the left foreground is a tree proper. The right foreground contains a flowering hedge in dark green with multicolored small flowers on a green lawn.
Ron Lahav, 3 August 2005
An e-mail to the Office of the City Clerk elicited a response from the Deputy City Clerk which stated that while there is no official flag, the thumbnail of the design which appears on the Home Page of the web site is generally considered to be the city flag. She drew my attention to the municipal seal which appears on other pages of the web site, but did not indicate whether this was also used as a flag or not.
www.slocity.org/
Ron Lahav, 3 February 2009
