Comment by solomonb
2 years ago
You can look at the Spring 1970 issue and see the price, the seller's contact info, and the "or WHOLE EARTH CATALOG" statements:
https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-catalog-spring-1970?fo...
2 years ago
You can look at the Spring 1970 issue and see the price, the seller's contact info, and the "or WHOLE EARTH CATALOG" statements:
https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-catalog-spring-1970?fo...
Thanks for correcting me. I could have sworn that this did not happen for quite a number of years after that. I was wrong.
No problem! Lucky for us they uploaded all the issues of the catalog. : )
If you look on the Wikipedia page there were a few related physical stores over the years:
> the Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the "Whole Earth Truck Store" which was a 1963 Dodge truck. In 1968, Brand, who was then 29, and his wife Lois embarked "on a commune road trip" with the truck, hoping to tour the country doing educational fairs. The truck was not only a store, but also an alternative lending library and a mobile microeducation service.
> In 1969, a store which was inspired by (but not financially connected with) The Whole Earth Catalog, called the Whole Earth Access opened in Berkeley, California. It closed in 1998. In 1970 a store called the "Whole Earth Provision Co.", inspired by the catalogue, opened in Austin, Texas.[27] It has six stores in Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.