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- Our First Seal was the Cantaloupe! Yes the Cantaloupe!
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Jan 20, 2017 · Most seals reflect the times and growth the city was going through at the time. Our First Seal was the Cantaloupe! Yes the Cantaloupe! When the city was organized in July of 1911 the economy was totally based on agriculture and melons were one of Burbank’s big crops.
The first city seal adopted by Burbank featured a cantaloupe, which was a crop that helped save the town's life when the land boom collapsed. In 1931, the original city seal was replaced and in 1978 the modern seal was adopted. The new seal shows City Hall beneath a banner.
Jan 27, 2017 · January 27, 2017. 0. Last week we looked at the first two Seals that represented Burbank. Now the final two… Our next City Seal took a new direction in shape and added color to the mix. The airplane received a larger part and a central place in the seal and also incorporated the look of industry.
Jan 9, 2008 · “The city seal is the city’s stamp.” This is the fourth stamp in Burbank’s 97-year history. The first seal was adopted in 1911, two months after Burbank became the first incorporated city ...
Mayor Byron E. Cook, quoted by the Times in 1974, described the existing seal as “environmentally uncouth,” and in January 1974 the City Seal Committee began soliciting public suggestions for a new design. A final decision was announced in November 1977, when the current seal, depicting an airplane, City Hall, a klieg light inside a frame ...
Also in 1931 a new city seal was adopted which replaced the "cantaloupe" seal, and reflected the city as an urban rather than a rural community. The city built a new main library building on Olive Avenue near Glenoaks Boulevard in 1935.
The first "Big Red Car" came in to Burbank on September 6, 1911. On September 22, the city hosted a celebration with a parade and barbecue with a formal address by Governor Hiram Johnson. The line eventually closed down in 1955 and the rails removed in 1956.
