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He’s also particularly fond of a Moreton Bay fig that’s spilling over the muraled retaining wall of Mid-City’s Prescott School.

I ask politely to bum a Marlboro 27 from a couple standing a few paces down Sunset from the bar’s muraled entrance, adjacent to El Prado’s gravitational pull but not fully in resonance with it.

The muraled corner building was broken into twice during the unrest, with some of its goods stolen.

It’s a 15-minute drive from one side of Lompoc — past ranch-style homes, the heavily muraled downtown off Ocean Avenue and the railroad that runs through town — to the prison on the city’s other edge.

We accompany the volatile, sparkling-eyed charmer to the slummy muraled cafes and dance halls where artists, writers, journalists and models drank, flirted and quarreled.