Title: Great Floral Flag

Year: 1999

Master Artist: Art Mortimer, Santa Monica, CA
Location: 131 South H Street (south side of building)

Description: In 1941, when the nation was deeply engulfed in World War II, Bodger Seed Co. of Lompoc undertook a special tribute to our troops fighting around the world. They planted 600,000 larkspur and calendula flowers in the fields to the west of the city under Lookout Point. The following Spring (1942) the more than nine acres of plants blossomed into what is believed to have been the largest flag in the world. The flag was replanted with different dimensions in 1943, 1945, 1952, 1953 and once again in 2002.