San Francisco Oracle

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The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle, [1] was an underground newspaper published from 1966 to 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of that city. Allen Cohen was editor and Michael Bowen the art director, the two of them having co-founded the publication.

The Oracle combined poetry, spirituality, and multi-cultural interests with psychedelic design, reflecting and shaping the countercultural community as it developed in the Haight-Ashbury.

It was arguably the outstanding example of the psychedelic aspect of the countercultural press, noted for experimental multicolored design, and involving many of the most significant San Francisco-area artists of the time, including Bruce Conner and Rick Griffin. It featured the writing of San Francisco-area beat writers Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure.

A spin-off in Los Angeles (The Los Angeles Oracle) existed for a short time.

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