Thread: CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY : AN EXTINCT SUBSPECIES

This design on a T-shirt is one of several that are on display as part of the "Mi Corazon Escondido" exhibit at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido museum until July.

Escondido councilman upset over 'divisive' art exhibit on illegal immigration

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03 ... _21_07.txt

Oh Skip! That's good.

Needs more border crossing runners to be accurate.

Dixie

Good---when I lived in North County/Vista almost a decade ago, I substituted "Estupido" for "Escondido". Looks like nothing has changed....

Skip wrote on March 23, 2007 6:57 AM:"Thanks NCT for posting a picture of the new American Art. I guess it does not matter that I would find the desecration of the California flag to be offensive. After all I am just an American Citizen on Welfare. My one suggestion is that the depiction of the California Flag needs more border crossing runners to be accurate."

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03 ... _21_07.txt


Thanks Dixie

Did anyone get a chance to save the first picture. I was at work and did not get a chance to save it. The newspaper took it down before i got a chance to save a copy.

The flag is a reconstruction of the flag believed to have been displayed during the first attempt to have California secede from Mexico. This was a "Californio" attempt. There is no surviving original. The flag is described in a manuscript held at the Babcroft Library in Berkeley California.

Harry Knill, the publisher of Bellerophon Books first brought this flag to light. The story associated with this flag depicted in the painting it is that officers sympathetic with the notion of independence for California took this Mexican Flag defaced with "Independencia de California" to the Padre at the Mission Santa Barbara. The good father refused, being against overthrowing the established order. It was later carried south and later was flown over the Mission San Buenaventura.

It is similar to other Mexican flags form 1836 used by both Texas and California in their attempts of assert local independence. Namely the Conservative Party in Texas, the Texas-Coahuila Militia in 1836, Los Angeles 1839 and Sutter's Fort 1846. It was apparently not uncommon for the Mexican tri-color without the eagle and serpent to have some other device substituted.

In 1836 Lt. Juan B. Alvarado vowed to end the territorial association of California with Mexico with "bullets or words". He hoisted a white flag with a single, centered, red 5 pt star in Monterey. This flag survives and is preserved in the library of the Southwest Museum in Pasadena, California. It may be the oldest surviving flag in the State of California. It is clearly based on American models.