Early Photograph of Lompoc, City of Lompoc
Early Photograph of Lompoc, City of Lompoc
Summers tells the story of Lompoc's utopian, no-alcohol-allowed beginnings, including teetotaler terrorist acts against the evils of saloons.
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Chumash were the first to live in the Lompoc area we call home by Jennifer Best, Lompoc Record (January 19, 2022)
History of Lompoc, City of Lompoc
Wikipedia: Temperance Towns
Wikipedia: Temperance Movement
Lompoc's early Prohibition experiment led to bombing, vigilantism by Willis Jacobson, Lompoc Record (January 29, 2020)
The Founding of Lompoc by Michael Redmon, Santa Barbara Independent (August 3, 2016)
The Great Mardi Gras Temperance Disaster by John Varley
Judge Broughton Called by the Great Reaper, Lompoc Journal (February 19, 1910)
Dive chic by Nicholas Walter, Santa Maria Sun (August 3, 2010)
Lompoc Anti-Alcohol Riot Mural