Surf Depot

Title: Surf Depot
Year: 2006
Artist: Ann Thompson, Lompoc, Ca
Location: 112 North H Street on South facing wall of the old Lompoc Theatre.

Description:This mural shows a scene of the Lompoc train depot in the early 1900’s. The depot was located where the Lompoc Amtrak Station is located today. Initially, a track ran from San Francisco to the mouth of the Santa Ynez River near Lompoc and from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. It took 12 years and $2,500,000 to connect the lines and complete the fifty-mile stretch rounding Point Conception called “The Gap.” In 1903, the Surf Depot was the site of a whistle-stop speech made by President Teddy Roosevelt.