largest industry at the time) and, rather prominently, a lone palm tree. In those days (indeed, through the 1950s) palm trees were considered exotic and were good "sales points" for potential land buyers. That original design is still the official City Seal.

In the early 1990s, the City Council asked that the emblem be modified, simplified and modernized. Local graphic artists were invited to submit designs and to quote prices for their work. The Council turned down all the submissions
"probably because of the cost" and invited the much-respected Art Institute in nearby Pasadena to offer their students a chance to design the new "logo" for no money, but for experience and credit.

The resulting logo was at least partially designed by a student although we have been unable to finda record of her name (it is remembered that it was a young woman). I say partially, because the city's management team apparently became
very involved in the design after the initial work had been done, asking for many changes. The final work was done, to my understanding, by engineers working on computers in the City's Public Works Department, under the direction of the
management committee.

The new logo is very simple. It features the mountains and a tree branch. The mountains, of course, are the community's greatest identifying feature. Why the tree branch? We don't know. (In defense of those involved with the project at
the time, the City was undergoing severe financial difficulties at the time and was "between" Public Information Officers, the position that would normally handle a task