One flag looked too much like a snail so the city changed it.
There are about 101 cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area’s nine counties. From the biggest , to the smallest , to the oldest , to the newest , nearly all of them have their own flags. Some are relatively well known to residents, billowing proudly in the wind on city hall; others are barely familiar, hidden away on long-forgotten municipal websites. It’s fair to say the design quality on some of them is lacking.
Here is our absolutely subjective take on the Bay Area’s most interesting-looking flags, some that are wildly creative, and some appear to have been designed in the dark on MS Paint.Palo Alto should have a cool flag. The city is named after a very old tree that’s been standing on the banks of San Francisquito Creek, near Highway 82, through thick and thin for more than 1,000 years.
A plaque at the base of the tree notes that after camping there the settlers “discovered San Francisco Bay,” which probably came as news to the Indigenous people who had lived there for more than 10,000 years.The Pittsburg flag is a doozie, so bad it’s good.