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This underground SF newspaper printed 125,000 copies of an issue. Then it disappeared.
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The cover of issue seven of the San Francisco Oracle.Daniel D. Teoli Archival Collection / Archive.org
No other publication epitomized the alternative ideals of a generation quite like the San Francisco Oracle. Featuring everything from full page ads for the Grateful Dead to interviews with Timothy Leary, entrepreneurial hippies would receive ten free copies to sell on the streets of Haight-Ashbury, then use the earnings to re-up on more to sell. It epitomized 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.