Lompoc Visitors Guide

Lompoc Valley Visitors Guide 31 FAMOUS LOMPOC VISITORS Presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy visited Lompoc October 31, 1959 with lunch at the La Puri- sima Inn shown with Larry Grossman. President Kennedy also visited Vandenberg AFB March 23, 1962. Jayne Mansfield was the 1951 Flower Festival Parade Grand Marshal. Jayne Mansfield, husband Mickey and daughter Jayne Marie are shown riding in the parade, Submitted by The Lompoc Valley Historical Society Mid 60's Flower Festival Grand Marshals Robert Lansing and his then wife Emily McLaughlin. Robert had a hit tv show 12 O'Clock High and Emily was Nurse Jesse Brewer on the soap General Hospital. Pictures from an old box camera. The reviewing stand: Robert Lansing is right above lady in white. Emily is to his right. From circa 1935, Actress/singer Ethel Merman poses in a flower field in the lower Lompoc Valley. Beautiful dress. Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes) at the Lompoc Flow- er Festival, he was Grand Marshal. Girl in pic is un- identified. Restaurant is unknown. Johnny Gray graduated from Lompoc High School in Lompoc. He was an un-drafted rookie with the Green Bay Packers in the 1975 NFL season and played for the team for nine seasons. Gray was in- ducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1993.