Featuring everything from full-page ads for the Grateful Dead to interviews with Timothy Leary, no other publication epitomized the alternative ideals of a generation quite like the San Francisco Oracle.
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It embodied the alternative ideals of a whole generation, and incarnated a new way of utopian living that for a millisecond actually seemed like an enduring possibility.
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Founded in 1966 by New Yorker-turned-San Franciscan Allen Cohen, the underground paper played a crucial role in provoking, accelerating, and reflecting an exhilarating new movement the city would forever be linked to: the psychedelic '60s.
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The idea first came to him in a dream:
"One morning in the late spring of 1966 I dreamt that I was flying around the world," he'd later recall. "When I looked down, I saw people reading a newspaper with rainbows printed on it."
"One morning in the late spring of 1966 I dreamt that I was flying around the world," he'd later recall. "When I looked down, I saw people reading a newspaper with rainbows printed on it."
At its peak, the San Francisco Oracle printed over 100,000 copies per issue.
But after chronicling one of the city's most vibrant eras in real-time, it also faded away, lasting a mere twelve issues before ceasing publication in early 1968.
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But after chronicling one of the city's most vibrant eras in real-time, it also faded away, lasting a mere twelve issues before ceasing publication in early 1968.
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