THE MAGAZINE OF GOURMET BATHING  

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#1
May-June 1976
  • 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


Jeannine Olson

NOTHING BUT THE NAKED TRUTH
#2
Aug-Sept 1976
  • 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


 

BATHE IN NOTHINGNESS
#3
Oct-Nov 1976
  • "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


Hope and Julia

#4
Dec-Jan 1977
  • "No Onions" by Eve Babitz
  • Toothpaste Ratings
  • Brentwood dentist Rod Curry interview
  • "Tales from my Toilet" by Paul Ruscha
32 pages, brown ink


Ginny and Jayme

#5
Feb-March 1977
  • 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


 

#6
April-May 1977
  • "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


 

#7
June-July 1977
  • "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


Mary Crawford
Miss Santa Monica

#8
Aug-Sept 1977
  • "Rolfing" -- interview with rolfer Hank Walker
  • Places: Pyramid Lake and Havasu Falls
  • "New Wave Music!" -- Wippo reviews the first DEVO single
40 pages


 

ECLECTICISM
#9
Nov-Dec 1977
  • "Different Notions of Cleanliness" by Athena Tacha
  • "Waterbeds" by Eve Babitz
  • Bob & Bob interview Levis Preston, the new Elvis
  • Bathing with Mescalito
46 pages


Carol Mosner Straub

BENT BATHING
#10
Jan-Feb 1978
  • 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]


1957 - 1978

ANIMAL
#11
March-April 1978
  • 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


Dick & Jane

SUMMER
#12
May-Jun 1978
  • Confrontation Bathing with wave cultist/photographer Anthony Friedkin
  • The Frustrated '50s
  • Bob & Bob Explain Summer
  • A Complete History of Seltzer Water
42 pages


 

OBSESSION
#13
July-Aug 1978
  • XTRA (the Picture Newspaper)
  • Excerpts from Sweat by Mikkel Aaland
  • "Eternal Coffee" by Charlie Haas


Cocoa Mitchell

MUD
#14
Sept-Oct 1978
  • 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")


 

STYLE
#15
Nov-Dec 1978
  • 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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