The City’s Logo
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 11 December 2009 — 5 comments below »
Does anyone know the origins of our city’s logo (and why it includes a partridge)? When was it commissioned? Is that a wind-swept oak tree? Is that even a partridge? I have a few questions.
Isn’t the bird a quail? I would assume that the quail were chosen since there are flocks of them that live in Hercules.
@Gareth – Thank you, that answers the most important question. A quail. (I had thought it was a Partridge Family thing.)
I believe the tree is a depiction of the oak tree that is behind the ohlone school in Ohlone park.
Definitely quail, my grandfather used to hunt them here from time to time during the 1930s-40s.
Duck also used to be plentiful during the migration season.
Can’t sleep? Ask Valstead for the history of the logo of this great City of Hercules . . . the Dynamic City.
Go ahead. I dare you!
Hercules used to be land with rolling hills dotted with old oak trees and quail running around. But that’s pretty much extinct now. We’ve developed just about every square inch . . . a project for every plot of land.
Anyway, that logo is stylized in an ugly way and outdated.
I know! We could update it!
The unfinished project of Sycamore North could be in the middle, with the yet-to-be started Waterfront project in the distance beyond. A crying citizen could be standing in the foreground with his pockets turned inside out!
The Oliva Plan: (by the time he gets through with us) 77% of us will be “very low income” and in need of one of his yet-to-be completed units.
DY-NO-MITE!!