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The San Francisco Oracle / The Psychedelic Newspaper of the Haight Ashbury (Digital Re-Creation)

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LONG LIVE THE SAN FRANCISCO ORACLE!!! This is one of the best publications of history. You can print out everything and color in stuff and there are colored pages, too. Has all 12 issues with all of the fun, pictures, articles and stories! There are many typos in the articles-but this is natural due to it being underground, cheap (15 cents a copy!) and from the 60s. Get it-you won't regret it!

If you own either one of the hard covered "Facsimile Edition" or the "Collectors Edition" books, this is a nice way to have a copy of it on disc, especially since it's now worth around $1000. The digital re-creation is in .pdf format and the pages are crystal clear with vibrant psychedelic colors just like in the book.

The best part that I like are the advertisements for records and concerts from back then. A real "Flash-Back"

You can also transfer the disk files to your computer so that you don't always have to load up the disk. Once in your computer you can print every page and create your own book.

A costly paper reissue of the Oracle was briefly available some years ago but is now out of print, so this CD ROM is the next best thing. The DVD that comes with it, on the other hand, is amateurish and dispensable.

"Drop out! Modern civilization is a dangerous, insane process- destructive of man's natural potential, murderous to other species of life, symbol addicted, anti-life. Drop out of the social game." (2nd Page of The San Francisco Oracle).

If you missed the sixties, as I did, being born a decade too late, you owe it to yourself to read this amazing home-grown newspaper. How relevant so many of these "revolutionary" ideas seem today. If people had only took these ideas seriously! So much of what these concerned, creative, independent thinkers predicted has come true. This is the Haight at its best- before it was overrun by mindless junkies. Of course, REALLY living, being joyful, expanding consciousness, and living fully in the present is an essential message throughout these issues, but so is compassion, love, and caring for community and the environment.

A beautiful movement captured in such a unique newspaper, or rather anti-newspaper. Should be required reading in American Studies classes.