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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsremember the "Whole Earth Catalog"
the original, black soft cover, full of everything needed to live anywhere.
I discovered Yurts in that and after all these years am going to build one on a piece of land yet to be decided on.
Just waxing nostalgic.
wryter2000
(46,136 posts)I bought my first computer from them.
onethatcares
(16,211 posts)paper edition. I don't remember seeing computers in them, but it was the early 70s.
It was a huge coffee table type book,
Another thing I wish I still had.
wryter2000
(46,136 posts)I remember the catalogue from waaaay back.
Auggie
(31,240 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,507 posts)They took over the old roller skating rink down on Francisco Boulevard. Excellent woodworking tool selection (Power and hand). Stewart Brand was living on a tugboat in Sausalito at the time, so I'm guessing that's why the store had an interesting collection of impossible to find boatwright tools.
There may, or may not have been one in Palo Alto, too.
randr
(12,418 posts)It was like an instruction manuel for a good life.
sorcrow
(422 posts)In 1974 or 1975, my sister and I gave each other a copy for Christmas. What's the theory? Give a present you'd like to receive? I learned tons from it. The sidebars were great. "I cured my warts with a Swiss Army knife" is one that comes to mind.
Regards,
Crow
llmart
(15,569 posts)I loved that book!
jpak
(41,761 posts)Wish I still had it.
bikebloke
(5,260 posts)csziggy
(34,140 posts)They had some neat stuff in that catalog.
dgauss
(885 posts)It was as if there was this whole fascinating parallel universe out there that nobody told me about. Who were the people that did this kind of stuff? What were their lives like? Where did they live? Was "Buckminster" really a name?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)Which one, I can't recall.