Flag of Los Angeles, California
The flag of Los Angeles, California, consists of a background of three notched stripes of green, gold and red. The colors represent olive trees (green), orange groves (gold) and vineyards (red), and the colors are also present in the flags of Spain and Mexico, the two nations who ruled over the area before it became part of the United States. The flag was designed by Roy E. Silent and E.S. Jones in 1931 for the Los Angeles sesquicentennial.
The city seal is shown in the center of the flag. The seal contains a heraldic shield quartered showing, in the first, an approximation of the shield shown on the Great Seal of the United States, though the blue chief features thirteen stars, in the second, an approximation of the flag of California, in the third, a tower and lion representing the arms of Spain, and in the fourth, an approximation of the coat of arms of Mexico. Surrounding the shield are representations of three major Californian crops, grapes, olives, and oranges.
The flag received brief international prominence when, during the closing of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, it was raised instead of the United States flag as a symbol of the next Olympic host. The move was seen as a response to the American-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
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