The City of San Francisco ORACLE Houseboat Summit Issue Vol 1 No 7 1967 COMPLETE

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The City of San Francisco ORACLE Houseboat Summit Issue Vol. 1 No. 7 1967 COMPLETE
San Francisco Oracle Vol. 1 No. 7 | The Houseboat Summit Issue | Orig. 1967 Complete in 52 pages. Back cover art by Rick Griffin "Peyote Man", Contains "Changes", the complete transcript of a taped discussion of counterculture ideals amongst Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Alan Watts and Gary Snyder before an invited audience in Watt's houseboat home in Sausalito, Feb 5th, 1967. Full page ads for Grateful Dead LP, Kenneth Anger's "Lucifer Rising" (designed by Rick Griffin), Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin. Condition : Good. Completely intact, all pages in place with folds, wrinkling, minor loss, a 2" horizontal tear at back cover and newspaper toning. Half-folded as it was originally folded when sold on the street in the Haight Ashbury. Size: 15" H x 11 1/4"W.
In 1966, Haight Ashbury poet Allen Cohen had a dream. In his dream, Allen Cohen dreamt that everyone on Haight St. was reading a newspaper & beautiful colored rainbows were floating off the pages. He decided to produce a Haight Ashby Underground Newspaper called "The Oracle". The San Francisco Oracle is considered by most art historians to be the greatest underground newspaper ever produced it contained the best visual artists, graphic artists writers thinkers of the psychedelic era. Historians place the psychedelic art of San Francisco on par with French "La Belle Epoque" at the turn of the century and Japanese wood block prints of the 1880s, as the best color graphic arts ever produced.