Page Two: Counting to 1,000
Welcome to our 1,000th issue, perhaps
By Nick Barbaro, Fri., July 16, 2004
This is the 1,000th regular issue of The Austin Chronicle. Here's how that breaks down:
We published Vol.1, No.1, on Sept. 4, 1981. For our first seven years, we published biweekly. 7x26 = 182
For volumes 8-14, we skipped an issue at Christmas. 7x51 = 357.* Volumes 15-22 we published weekly. 8x52 = 415.**
This is Vol. 23, No. 46. 1x46 = 46
TOTAL: 1,000
*Vol. 8 had 50 issues; Vol. 11 had 52.
** In 1998, we skipped a holiday issue again, so Vol. 17 had 51 issues.
Then again, if you count the prototype issue that came out in the summer of 1981, I guess this could be the 1,001st issue. Then there are four years of SXSW dailies, which would make 1,015, and a couple of unnumbered special issues ... oh well, who's counting?
