Everything about San Francisco Oracle totally explained
The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the
San Francisco Oracle, (External Link
) was an
underground newspaper published from
September 20,
1966 to
February 1968 in the
Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of
that city.
Allen Cohen (1940-2004) was the editor and Michael Bowen the art director, the two of them having founded the publication. The
Oracle was among the founding members of the
Underground Press Syndicate.
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
psychedelia within
countercultural "underground" press, noted for experimental multicolored design.
Oracle contributors included many significant San Francisco-area artists of the time, including
Bruce Conner and
Rick Griffin. It featured such
beat writers as
Allen Ginsberg,
Gary Snyder,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti and
Michael McClure.
At its peak, the publication's print run was about 125,000, but its editors estimated that ample pass-around readership brought their circulation above half a million.
A spin-off in
Los Angeles, the
Los Angeles Oracle, existed for a short time.
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