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Lompoc has always been a horse town.
So it stands to reason that we love our horses.
The annual Flower Festival parade always has lots of horses in attendance.

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Lompoc has a diverse population.
People of many ancestries show off their own cultural heritage in the various cultural groups that march in the parade.

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We enjoy our vehicles in Lompoc.
Ever since they removed the hitching posts from 'H' street, we've moved more and more to cars and trucks, now they provide the main transportation for the citizens of Lompoc.
So it stands to reason that we'd put them in the parade.

Lompoc has had a good share of fine artists for years. The last dozen years the town has encouraged public murals by its' civic groups in order to beautify the town.
Here are some of the photos I took to show off my hometown, pretty little Lompoc.

Lompoc has been known for its flower fields for generations now.
But there is much more to this small town tucked away in the furrowed hills of California's' fabled Central Coast

LOST MISSION (1996)

The Spaniards were the first European colonists in this area. Father Francisco Serra founded the Mission La Purisima in 1787.
Lompocs' mission was destroyed in a great earthquake in 1812, the original site was abandoned by the church and the mission rebuilt in 1813 at the present site of the Mission two miles East of the city. The original ruins can be seen at the intersection of Locust Avenue and South F street. This mural depicts the life of the mission.
Artist: Vicki Anderson of Lompoc Ca in 1996
Behind the Lompoc Museum, S H St. and Cypress Ave.

TRAGEDY AT HONDA
Mural in a day project, 1997

Lompoc is set on the breezy coast of Central California, the seas here will often turn violent, and this area is known as 'The Graveyard of the Pacific'. This stretch of coast is still barren and desolate for many miles. It's rocky beaches, rip tides and strong currents have discouraged development, and been beneficial to the military who now have a launch facility on nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base.
This mural is testimony to the many ships gone down on these submerged rocks, including the downing of several destroyers in the 1923. This is the greatest Naval peacetime disaster in US history. Seven destroyers went down, and 23 sailors died in this historic tragedy not too far from Lompoc.
Teddy Roosevelt is pictured passing through town on his campaign tour in 1903.
And some ladies from the local Temperance colony would not don bathing suits feeling them to be too revealing. So they discretely lifted their long skirts to wade in the surf.
Master Artist, Lance Hunter
S. H St.

TEMPERANCE (1991)

Lompoc was originally founded in 1874 as a Temperance Colony and liquor was illegal in town. There was a league of concerned women who would get together and bust up the illegal saloons that would sometimes pop up. This artwork depicts just such a scene as Lompocs own 'Carrie Nation' Mrs. J.B. Pierce and her ax wielding vigilante women strung a rope around an illegal saloon and yanked it off its foundation and pulled it for a block, booze spilling out as it went. After some time the people of Lompoc learned to depend on the 'dumbing effects of alcohol' and now the people can drink as much as anyone else.
Artist: Dan Sawatsky of Chamainus, British Columbia.
On the North wall of Lompoc Sleep Shop, 137 S. H St.

ETHNIC DIVERSITY (1993)

This artwork has 12 portraits celebrating the diverse ethnic groups who have made Lompoc into the fine town it is now. All these folks are prominent Lompoc residents, past or present. Lompoc Black leader Louis Artis, Chumash Indian leader Juanita Centeno, Chinese Philosopher, farmer, businessman and Prophet Gin Chow (my favorite).
Artist:Richard Wyatt of Culver City CA.

Even the merchants and citizens of town have gotten together to brighten up the town with nicely done murals on any flat space available. This is a business in Lompoc which has painted the blank alley wall to brighten up part of the town.
Artist: I don't know,
Location, alley near H St and Cypress

OK, I couldn't resist showing you the end of 'H' street.
This is about as 'Middle America" as it gets in California.
 
 
 

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