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.
[edit] External links
- San Francisco Oracle, Human-Be-IN, History of the Haight-Ashbury
- 25th anniversary issue of the San Francisco Oracle
- Biography of Allen Cohen, Editor of the San Francisco Oracle
- Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s
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