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Title: "Flower Industry"; Year: 1989; Master Artist: Art Mortimer, Santa Monica, CA; Location: 102 West Ocean, North side of the Oddfellows Building. SW corner Ocean Ave. and H St. Description: Lompoc's 1st civic mural features portraits of important early growers. |
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Title: "Mission Abstract"; Year: 1989; Artist: Lori Slater, Lompoc, CA; Location: 104 East Ocean Avenue; Description: This stylized mural depicts a portion of the entrance to Lompoc's first La Purisima Mission that was located at what is now Locust Avenue and South F Street. |
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Title: "Diatomaceous Mining"; Year: 1990; Artist: Roberto Delgado, Los Angeles, CA; Location: 111 South I Str. on the Chamber of Commerce Building; Description: This mural depicts the era when the Lompoc Valley was beneath the sea and diatoms settled at the bottom in great masses. |
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Title: "Temperance"; Year: 1992; Artist: Dan Sawatsky, Chemainus, British Columbia; Location: 137 South H St. (north side of building); Description: Lompoc was founded in 1874 as a temperance colony, but all the dynamite in the valley and mobs of ax-wielding women couldn't keep liquor out of town. |
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Title: "Early Education"; Year: 1992; Artist: Shirley Wallace, Lompoc, CA; Location: 215 North H St. (Bank of America Building); Description: The one-room school house is the former Santa Rita School built in 1876 off what is now Hwy 246 between Lompoc and Buellton. |
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Title: "Ethnic Diversity"; Year: 1993; Artist: Richard Wyatt, Culver City, CA; Location: 115 Civic Center Plaza (west side of building); Description: The mural's 12 giant portraits celebrate the diversity of the people from various ethnic groups who played important roles in the history of the Lompoc Valley. |
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Title: "Lompoc's First Fire Chief"; Year: 1994; Artists: Pat & Robert Saul, Lompoc, CA; Location: On the north wall of City Fire Station at 120 South G St.; Description: This mural honors Charles Everett, the city's first fire chief. He served from 1915 - 1950. The little boy on the truck is Ed Everett, the Chief's son. |
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Title: "La Purisima Mission"; Year: 1995; Artist: Leonardo Nunez, Lompoc, CA; Location: 206 East Ocean Avenue; Description: La Purisima Mission was built at the present site three miles northeast of Lompoc beginning 1813. The original mission, at F and Locust Streets in Lompoc, was destroyed by a massive earthquake in 1812. |
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Title: "Latina Esprescion"; Year: 1995; Artist: Leonardo Nunez, Lompoc, CA (with students from Lompoc High School); Location: 119 West Maple Ave. (west wall); Description: This mural depicts the Hispanic people in their quest for freedom and liberty. The American and Mexican leaders at the top of the mural are those who did the most to creat an opportunity for freedom & advancement for the Mexican people. |
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Title: "Lompoc's Mission Vieja"; Year: 1996; Artist: Vicki Andersen, Lompoc, CA; Location: Behind the Lompoc Museum, 200 South H St.; Description: Mission La Concepcion Purisima de Maria Santisima (Mission of the Immaculate Conception of Most Holy Mary) was founded by Father Presidente Ferman de Lausuen on Dec. 8, 1787, at what is now Locust Ave. and F. St. |
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Title: "An Artist's Cottage"; Year: 1998; Artists: Linda Gooch & Vicki Andersen, Lompoc, CA; Location: 119 East Cypress Avenue on the Cypress Gallery; Description: The artists turned this non-descript cinder-block building into a tromp l'oeil Victorian cottage. The Cypress Gallery is home to the Lompoc Valley Art Association. |
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Title: "Rudolph Mansion"; Year: 1999-2000; Artist: Leonardo Nunez, Lompoc, CA; Location: 101 West Cypress (south side of building); Description: Lompoc's first mayor was Harvey Rudolph. He lived in a beautiful three story Victorian-style house located at Ocean Avenue and E Street. |
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Title: "The Price of Freedom"; Year: 2000; Artist: Eliseo Silva, Corona, CA; Location: 125 South H St.; Description: The mural pays tribute to all the men and women who served, fought and died in the 15 wars and conflicts of the Twentieth Century. |
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Title: "Flowers of the Valley"; Year: 2001; Artist: Vicki Andersen, Lompoc, CA; Location: Behind the Cypress Gallery at 119 East Cypress Avenue; Description: Series of 11 garage doors each depicting a different flower grown in the Lompoc Valley. |
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Title: "History of Medicine in the Lompoc Valley"; Year: 2005; Master Artists: Dave & Lisa Blodgett, South Bend, IN Location: 508 E. Hickory Way. Description: The 120-foot mural depicting the history of medicine in the Lompoc Valley dates back some 8,000 years when the Chumash Indians first occupied the portion of the West Coast that later would become California. |
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