Flagole Reliefs - Pasadena, CA - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This flagpole has an elaborate World War I Memorial and reliefs at its base.
The Smithsonian Inventory (visit link) describes it thusly:

"A copper clad flagpole surmounted by a bronze eagle is adorned at the base with a cylindrical bronze relief depicting enlisted men and officers, sailors, an aviator, and a Red Cross nurse. The figures are depicted standing one next to the other around the base of the flagpole. Just above the figures is a bronze band containing reliefs of a California bear, a ship, a fasces with arrows and coats-of-arms, and the names of World War I battles. Beneath the relief sculpture is a cylindrical granite base."

with the follwoing inscriptions:

" (On sculpture:) BERTRAM GROVENOR GOODHUE ARCHITECT/LEE LAWRIE SCULPTOR MCMXXIV-VI CAST BY JOHN POLACHEK BRONZE & IRON CO. INC./Long Island City, N.Y. (On sculpture:) YPRES/LYS/SAINT/MIHIEL/MEUSE/ARGONNE/VITTORS/VENETO/CHAMPAGNE/MARNE/..GNE/..RNE/SOMME/OFFENSIVE/OISE/AISNE(On granite base:) IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD MCMXVII MCMXVIII

Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1927 Website for sculpture?: [Web Link] Where is this sculpture?: corner of Colorado Blvd. and Orange Grove Blvd. Pasadena, CA USA Sculptors Name: Lee Lawrie

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