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#1
May-June 1976
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- Introduction by Leonard Koren
- interview with Hope and Julia
- "Nights of the Bath" by Frederick Fisher
- Steve Reich and Keith Jarrett:
"Due Voci a Tempo Bagno"
format: 8 pages, including covers: just
two folded photocopied 11" x 17" sheets
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Jeannine Olson
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NOTHING BUT THE NAKED TRUTH
#2
Aug-Sept 1976
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- Excerpt from Hot Tubs: How to Build, Maintain and Enjoy Your Own
- New Products, Wet to Wear, Food
- "The Further Adventures of Vapor Person" by Lyle Mayer
16 pages
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BATHE IN NOTHINGNESS
#3
Oct-Nov 1976
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- "Drinking Water: Bathing from the inside out"
- At the Water Bottling Plant
- The Wonderful Waters -- various bottled
& other waters, still and sparkling, rated from 0 to 5
- "Swimming Across America" by Galen Cranz
- "Vapor Person Raps"
32 pages, typeset
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Hope and Julia
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#4
Dec-Jan 1977
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- "No Onions" by Eve Babitz
- Toothpaste Ratings
- Brentwood dentist Rod Curry interview
- "Tales from my Toilet" by Paul Ruscha
32 pages, brown ink
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Ginny and Jayme
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#5
Feb-March 1977
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- The Healing Waters" interview with Bobby Klein
- "For the Greater Good: Clean
Water, Dirty Politics" by Lauren Elder
- "Mud Mama" interview with Rabyn Blake
- "Mud Matinee" -- a gathering in Topanga Canyon co-hosted by
Rabyn Blake & WET
36 pages, first color cover
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#6
April-May 1977
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- "Sweat", interview with Tom Johnson, author of The Sauna Book
- "Floating bathing suit a boon to nude swimmers" (excerpt from Life magazine)
- Bob & Bob interview the USC swim team
green ink, first ad for the WET T-shirt
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#7
June-July 1977
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- "Wet Dry" (detailed statement of the magazine's philosophy)
- "Two Bunch Palms" by Don Franzen
- "The Sutro Baths: Gone With the Tides" by Betsy Lewis
- "Asian Bath Journal" by Judy Foreman
- Bob & Bob interview the Department of Water and Power
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Mary Crawford
Miss Santa Monica
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#8
Aug-Sept 1977
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- "Rolfing" -- interview with rolfer Hank Walker
- Places: Pyramid Lake and Havasu Falls
- "New Wave Music!" -- Wippo reviews the first DEVO single
40 pages
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ECLECTICISM
#9
Nov-Dec 1977
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- "Different Notions of Cleanliness" by Athena Tacha
- "Waterbeds" by Eve Babitz
- Bob & Bob interview Levis Preston, the new Elvis
- Bathing with Mescalito
46 pages
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Carol Mosner Straub
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BENT BATHING
#10
Jan-Feb 1978
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- Rain Forest Shower
- Dominant Watersports + Bathroom Bondage: Jane Gaskill interviews Madame Lou-Lou
- "The Architecture of Frozen Water" by John Masius
- "Light From Steam" -- Don Franzen on geothermal energy
- Frozen Dinners reviewed by Irina Averkieff [illustration, p. 34]
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1957 - 1978
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ANIMAL
#11
March-April 1978
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- Henry Miller: On turning Eighty
- The Dial Soap Use Study: Dr Ernest Dichter
- "Real Architecture for Surreal Lifestyles" by Mark Mack
- Bob & Bob review the 1978 Dogs
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Dick & Jane
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SUMMER
#12
May-Jun 1978
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- Confrontation Bathing with wave
cultist/photographer Anthony Friedkin
- The Frustrated '50s
- Bob & Bob Explain Summer
- A Complete History of Seltzer Water
42 pages
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OBSESSION
#13
July-Aug 1978
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- XTRA (the Picture Newspaper)
- Excerpts from Sweat by Mikkel Aaland
- "Eternal Coffee" by Charlie Haas
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Cocoa Mitchell
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MUD
#14
Sept-Oct 1978
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- Eating Dirt
- Barbara Radice interviews Fiorucci
- "Much Of His Hair" by Linda Frye Burnham
- WET interviews Tom Verlaine
- "Forbidden Words" by Matt Groening (with
Binky from "Life In Hell")
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STYLE
#15
Nov-Dec 1978
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- Timothy Leary, Candice Bergen, David Johansen, Cal Worthington
- Ric Ocasek of The Cars
- "The Dice Life" by Irina Averkieff and Randall Badat
- "Albino Gators in the Cool, Dark, Dank" by John Peaslee and Victoria Hamburg
- Fashion of the Future
66 pages
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