Editing Lompoc, California (section)

===Lompoc Theatre===
The Lompoc Theatre, which opened in 1927, was owned and operated by the Calvert family for many years.<ref name="McReynolds">{{cite news|last=McReynolds|first=John|title=Grand Lompoc Theatre once a showcase|url=http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/grand-lompoc-theatre-once-a-showcase/article_c7f6bebb-b281-5509-8b1c-b37cc9a8ba93.html|access-date=March 19, 2014|newspaper=[[The Lompoc Record]]|date=May 27, 2007}}</ref> It encountered financial trouble in the 1970s because of competition from multiplexes and television. The last time a movie was shown on its screen was in 1987.<ref>{{cite news|last=Benham|first=Carol|title=Fate of Lompoc Theatre in hands of City Council|url=http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/fate-of-lompoc-theatre-in-hands-of-city-council/article_9a11a490-deb7-11e1-8df8-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=March 19, 2014|newspaper=[[The Lompoc Record]]|date=August 5, 2012}}</ref>

In July 2003, a non-profit group, the Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corporation, announced plans to restore the theater. With the assistance of the city, the LHCDC was able to raise funds to buy the theater. By March 2008, the cost of renovating the building was estimated at just under $10 million. The LHCDC was unable to raise the money needed for renovations, and the building accumulated three liens.<ref>{{cite news|last=Benham|first=Carol|title=Timeline of LHCDC's plans for the Lompoc Theatre|url=http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/fate-of-lompoc-theatre-in-hands-of-city-council/article_9a11a490-deb7-11e1-8df8-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=March 19, 2014|newspaper=[[The Lompoc Record]]|date=August 5, 2012}}</ref> The Lompoc Theatre Project Organization was formed in 2012 with the help of Howlin' Byroon's Music Store (2009–2014) owner Brian W. Cole, Donelle Martin, Carol Benham, Michelle Shaefer and others. It was formally sold, and attaining the keys, to the same grassroots group called the Lompoc Theatre Project in 2016. {{As of | January 2020}}, restoration and fund-raising is still ongoing.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cruet|first=Gianna|title=Lompoc Theatre Project presents updated plans|url=http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/lompoc-theatre-project-presents-updated-plans/article_619c8406-9ac0-11e3-93e8-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=March 19, 2014|newspaper=[[The Lompoc Record]]|date=February 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Lompoc Theatre Project takes ownership of historic building |first=Willis |last=Jacobson |date=January 29, 2016|access-date=February 9, 2016|newspaper=[[The Lompoc Record]] |url=http://lompocrecord.com/news/local/lompoc-theatre-project-takes-ownership-of-historic-building/article_13f83720-2f63-5c68-8afd-f8d42a6dab1d.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Lompoc Theatre Project: Restoring the Historic Lompoc Theatre|url = http://www.lompoctheatre.org/|website = Lompoc Theatre Project|access-date = February 10, 2016|language = en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://lompocrecord.com/news/local/lompoc-s-landmark-hi-let-s-eat-sign-survives-gets/article_0cb831ed-65b9-599a-a819-0a3652feeef8.html|title=Lompoc's landmark 'Hi! Let's Eat' sign survives, gets new home|newspaper=[[Lompoc Record]]|first=Willis |last=Jacobson|date=April 27, 2017|access-date=May 8, 2017}}</ref>