Where is Lompoc?
It’s an hour North of Santa Barbara, hidden among the rolling hills of the Santa Ynez mountain range. It’s removed from the major freeways – 22 miles from Highway 101 – and for that reason it is easy to bypass Lompoc. And perhaps it’s just as well if you fancy swinging discotheques and extravagant resorts overflowing with crowds. But if your preference is for over a thousand acres of fragrant flowers, California’s most perfectly restored mission, one of the ten best small wineries in the world and friendly people who stop to say “hello” to strangers, then Lompoc is your kind of town. We hope you will be one of the “strangers” that falls in love with Lompoc. Visit the Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce home page. Come to the Flower Festival Forty five years ago the farming community held it’s Fourth of July Rodeo, and the Alpha Club held it’s thirty third annual Dahlia Show. From this humble start developed what is now know as “The Greatest Little Free Festival in the West,” featuring a
In California’s Wonderful Corner! Do you like player pianos? The following are digital scans of actual paper player piano rolls from the early 1900’s. Enjoy! I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles Nola Alexander’s Ragtime Band Darktown Strutter’s Ball Beautiful Ohio I’m Just Wild About Harry On Wisconsin (Lompoc and Cabrillo High School’s fight song!) from a 1919 roll Ma, He’s Making Eyes At Me Oh You Beautiful Doll Whispering Sister Suzie’s Sewing Shirts For Soldiers Shadow Waltz Sheik of Araby Good Bye Broadway, Hello France In 1962, local radio station KNEZ (“The Breezy 960”) produced a promotional piece entitled “I Had a Ball in Big L.” The song became an instant hit when it hit the airwaves. It was so popular that KNEZ sold 45 rpm copies of it for $1 apiece. There are very few of those recording still surviving. After 40 plus years, we found one and have provided it here for your listening pleasure. To answer the many questions about who the singer is —- we don’t know. The piece was produc
