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.Founded in 1966 by New Yorker-turned-San Franciscan Allen Cohen, the...…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.Founded in 1966 by New Yorker-turned-San Franciscan Allen Cohen, the...WW…