Olive Avenue Odyssey
Take a break and stroll with Ron down Lompoc's Olive Avenue.

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Read the history of Surf Beach and Ocean Park.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Lompoc Valley Historical Society!
Happy Thanksgiving, Bonny and all your readers, from the Lompoc Valley Historical Society. Those of us who have Internet read your pages all the time and do enjoy them.

We wanted everyone to know that we will have our Fabing, McKay, Spanne complex at 207 N. L St. closed all of December and we will reopen on January 4, a Thursday morning. Visitors are welcome, starting that day and every Monday and Thursday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. -- except on National Holidays. So we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and we will see you all again starting on Jan. 4.

Any of you with an hour or two on your hands during those mornings would be most welcome to come and help us out - especially on Thursday mornings when the Third Graders are touring -- 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. That happens almost every Thursday morning.

Many thanks for your wonderful Lompoconline!
Myra Manfrina, board member and historian/genealogist.

P.S. I enjoyed Ron Fink's Olive Avenue tour, since we live on Olive and D St. One correction, Ron -- The Victorian home on the SW corner of Olive and H, now the home of James and Irene Haven, was built in the 1890's by John Douglas Black and his wife Clara Wilkin. John was a harness maker who came to Lompoc in about 1884 and opened a saddlery business on E. Ocean Av. Mrs. Black had a millinary shop next door. Black was also, about 1905, the city treasurer. That is probably more than you wanted to know, but the home that was Wright Peck's is next door to the south of that home, and it has the distinction of being the first home built on H Street. Myra

Lom-pock to the Bay Area?

Scott Peterson writes, I have never been to Lompoc. I have merely driven past it on the 101 between my native Orange County and my current residence in Palo Alto. However, I was recently involved in a debate over your town's name.

My roommate's employer, Blue Martini Software, mentioned the city of Lompoc in a radio ad--but the narrator pronounced it "Lom-pock." I heard the ad before it aired, and I let them know that the city is called "Lom-poke." Evidently my roommate finally verified this with your mayor himself.

Further debate has begun to rage about the situation, however. It was too late to fix the radio spot before it ran, so the Bay Area has begun hearing Lom-pock frequently. This has prompted a flurry of e-mail...
Read Scott's email in its entirety.

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Lompocans Found Love Online!

Lompoc husband and wife, Dan and Pamela Crandall, found each other on the internet. Dan has created a website where you can read all about it.

Here's an excerpt:

...after about 4 binders full of emails, 60 online 'dates', countless phone calls, a couple visits (she came to see me first in California!), we were married at the farmhouse where she grew up on November 30, 1996, and it has been the best thing we have both ever done!

Visit Dan and Pam's Wonderful Story Website.