Midland School me Charlie Webb & now Harry Madsen Stories
Midland library grows…
Charlie  EveRudd (Fred) n I had several odd get-togethers in the '80s
I met up with them by invitation Topanga Canyon nudist colony cool
they lived mostly in a vw bus campgrounds  our driveway
he was writing a new screenplay Gwen
talked like wanting my help
bla bla weird stuff
Nancy got big Hollywood lawyer & I even got Midland-law-Coberly involved
... it all died natural
He gave away most all money
Fred n Charlie died in Bournemouth UK... found an article on google
Life... Charlie had his Graduate in his 20s
we came out in our 80s
no money
who gives a shit
i!/we? live TRUCKIN'...
Os  Bill
+:
Harry Madsen
"Grandpa Red and The Cherokee Rose" coming June ‘26
then follows
"Grandma Garcia and The Dead Mans Rodeo"

Bill Dane


BUSD Odyssey School 1970s field trip to Sunset Beach

Bill Dane


Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website +++ GUARDIAN

Bill Dane


Bad Sachsa
Lived here and had our lil radio truck, overlooking what was the East German border & Russian military exercises, which me and Peter Waldo monitored... we later lived w a dentist fam in town, I had my '60 VW bug, our bestie girlfriends lived in Northeim... et ceteras

Bill Dane


so what ! w/o emoji

The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Tel. 956-6100 Cable: Modernart NO. 93
F O R R E L E A S E :
NOVEMBER 1, 1973

​”UNFAMILIAR PLACES   A MESSAGE FROM BILL DANE”

​   Eighty slides , reproducing a selection of the photographic postcards
made and mailed by Bill Dane in the past three y e a r s during his t r a v e l s
around the country and abroad, will be on view at The Museum of Modern
Art from November 1 through January 6, 1974.
Unfamiliar Places: A Message from Bill Dane was selected by John
Szarkowski, Director of the Museum's Department of Photography, from
about 1500 cards recording the photographer's personal observations of Paris, Oakland, Point Richmond, Las Vegas, Baton Rouge, Little Rock and other points of interest, which he sent to about 100 people.
His subjects include public monuments, landscapes, street facades, houses, views of metropolitan centers and of small towns. His trips generally last from a couple of days to a week. The message consists of a written comment on the back of these cards as well as the picture. "One reason I like to move to shoot is that it's often easier to appreciate the subtle humor in someone else's environment" he wrote on one card (13 May 73). And, earlier, "Needless to say I'm on the road with none of the flair and esprit of Kerouac or Frank, just plugging away at the edge of historical monumentalia. Hot dog​ & Whooppeee & Howl​." (1 F e b . 73).
William Thacher Dane was born in Pasadena, California, in 1938.
He studied at the University of California at Berkeley where he received
his B. A. in Political Science and Art in 1964 and his M. A. in Painting in 1968.
From 1966 until 1972 [1998] he taught painting, sculpture, art history and
photography at Berkeley High School. He began to take photographs in 1970 and that same year he included photographs along with his painting and sculpture in a one-man show in San Francisco . In 1972 the Oakland Art
Museum exhibited his work in an exhibition called "Mailed Photo Cards."
Dane's work has also been exhibited at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California, where he lives, and at Hofstra University, Long Island. In 1967, Mr. Dane won the Lodi Painting Annual in Lodi, California. In 1973 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography.

Photographs and additional information available from Elizabeth Shaw, Director,
Department of Public Information, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53 St.,
New York, NY 10019. Telephone: (212) 956-7501 or 956-7504.

Bill Dane


I cant remember anything we did together as a family...
except drinking adult BBQs ... we played around
mother always drove us kids to Ojai 
I remember only one family dinner - I figured out how to get rid of the dry spinach in my mouth
not a complaint!

Bill Dane