#daveo50 ~ 1986 / 50 years > days > photos
Project: Upon turning 50 years old on August 16, 2020, Dave Olson (me, hello) is posting a photo (or maybe […]
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Portraits of the Artiste
Collections of Artifacts, Personal Musings
Books: Otherwise / chapbooks, magazines, oddities, ephemera
Ending “book round-up” week (just came up with that) comes “stuff that didn’t fit anywhere else” – chapbooks, odds and
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifacts: License Plate Wall in Pe ELL, WA (partial view)
Anecdotally I’ve heard that technically you can’t publish/post/publicize photos of license plates (number plates in some areas) however i’ll assume
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Collections of Artifacts, Personal Musings, VWs + Buses
Grateful Dead rambles / “family photos” (with renegade pals & VWs)
Back in the days of rambling around to Grateful Dead shows with pals in various (usually Volkswagen) vehicles, cameras weren’t
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Typewriters
Collection: Typewriters – variety, unknown, mysteries, odds and ends
What follows is a round-up/collection of typewriters I either purchased, used, or simply observed along the way on various wanders.
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Personal Musings
Memento: Mickey Mouse rolls in Starlite Limo, Orem Utah, ca. 1987
Note: this limousine service was our family business and we rolled with various luminaries (Mr. T!, Johnny Whittaker, various Osmonds),
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Postcards via video
Preserving the Wildflower – Postcard #69 via video
What becomes of the seemingly ephemeral creations we leave behind? Especially in the analog-days? Consider these in the context of
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Libraries / Museums / Archives
Katie Lee: the Desert Goddess, Renegade Folksinger and Glen Canyon Activist #tribute
Adding to the variety of artifacts (including my recently re-surfacing essay “Damn the Dam”) about Glen Canyon, which turned into
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Academic Essays
Damn the Dam – essay about Colorado River and Lake Powell, 1988-9
“Damn the Dam” By Dave Olson, 1988-9 Originally written for a Creative Writing class at Utah Valley Community College (now
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Personal Musings
Flashback: Notes about Orem (Utah) high school, on occasion of 30th reunion (2018)
A high school i attended for 1-1/2 year-ish in Utah held a 20 anniversary for my graduating class in summer
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Sensei Larry’s Wisdom – Postcard #80
Upon turning 70 years old, Dave’s dear sensei (since a teenage Utah community college stint), Larry Harper (among various monikers)
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Collections of Artifacts
Earthship VW bus/sauna, Big Cottonwood canyon, Utah (2016) – Lomo photos (colour)
As documented here and there, i once owned a 1974 VW bus and travelled all over the place and enjoyed
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