Editordude: Here’s a chuckle story from our friends at Peninsula News about our city’s flag.
If vexillologists are not vexed, should we be?
This is all about our City of San Diego Flag. You can picture it, right?
Wrong. That’s not it. Though it’s not half bad.
The actual, official, flag of our city is this one.
It was designed by Albert Vincent Mayrhofer (1889-1948). As a young man, Al clerked in the hardware department of the Western Metal Supply Company, or as we know it now, left field wall.
In later years he was in banking and real estate, civic activities and an abundance of political campaigns. His biography is quite entertaining. And incredibly detailed.
We are not authorized to publish a photo of Mr. Mayrhofer. But you could Google him.
After submitting his flag design to the City Council, they approved it on October 16, 1934. The city probably negotiated a great deal for it. We’re guessing.
We’ve never thought much about our city flag. But Jakob McWhinney over at VOSD has. Below is his conclusion.
San Diego’s Flag Is Old and Ugly. We deserve better.
Oh. And this will save you time looking up these vexing flag words:
A person who studies flags is a vexillologist, one who designs flags is a vexillographer, and the art of designing flags is called vexillography. What’s not clear is the word for someone who flies flags upside down.
Our flag doesn’t need to be canceled. We have plenty of other issues to attend to.
It would be a better article if they would explain what the current flag means and all the symbolism behind it. That’s what an interested mind in San Diego probably wants to know first.