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#daveo50 ~ 1984 / 50 years > days > photos

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#daveo50 ~ 1984 (NW Region Scout Camp) / somewhere in Idaho (i think)

Project: Upon turning 50 years old on August 16, 2020, Dave Olson (me, hello) is posting a photo (or maybe photos) a day / per year – starting with 1970 with intent of chronicling existence through various primary evidence sourced from studio portraits, class photos, ID / passport photos, or occasionally other “casual/group/random” shots when the above don’t exist in my archive (note: not “artificial intelligence,” really me, pulled from shoeboxes, journals,

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#daveo50 ~ 1984 (with Pacific Blue Drum Corps percussion section) / Surrey, BC, Canada (note B Rees, C Gee, S Mccarty in suit)
Dave Olson with pals performing Sex Pistols "air band" at a church in Surrey
#daveo50 ~ 1984 at Surrey church air band contest performing Sex Pistols with Kamel, Brad, Frank (we did not win/ Surrey, BC, Canada (note: cameo of Anders Olson in “front row”)

PS: start to see a “seachange” in me as in 1983, I saw David Bowie and rapidly transformed from diligent young student/chief scout/church boy to “all I wanna do is play punk rock and travel the world”… I joined a traveling drum corps, saw the Clash, the Ramones, Kiss (w/o makeup), DOA and 100 other bands, did a 43 day summer tour with drum corps, made fanzine, got a skateboard, explored everywhere > The pictures are scarce from these times but the ones that exist are heavily-laden with flashbacks. 

See also: Artifacts (youngtime): Scout ID, Camps, Lessons, Certs including “Mr Fun” award

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