PBA Galleries

Includes:

• PO Frisco. 12 pages. Vol. I, No. 1, Sept. 2, 1966. Lead articles include “Viet GI Speaks Out” and “Concentration Camps Ready for ‘Subversives.’”
• S.F. Oracle. 12 pages. Vol. I, No. 1, Sept. 20, 1966. Lead article “Haight-Ashbury meets Police.”
• San Francisco Oracle. 12 pages. Vol. 1, No. 2. Undated.  Lead article “Youth Quake.”
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  16 pages.  Vol. I, No. 3. Around Nov. 8, 1966. Lead article “Hunter’s Point Love Rock.”
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  24 pages. Vol. I, No. 4. Dec. 16, 1966. Lead article “Timothy Leary’s Press Conference.”
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  24 pages. Vol. I, No. 5. January 1967. Lead article announces the January 14th Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park.
• The Oracle. 32 pages. Vol. I, No 6. Undated. Lead article “Notes for a New Geology.”
• The Oracle. Second printing of above, with variant colors on cover.
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  52 pages Vol. I, No. 7. Lead is the "Houseboat Summit" which brought together Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and Gary Snyder for a long, free-ranging discussion on the houseboat owned by Watts and Jean Varda.
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  Second printing of above, with variant colors on cover.
• The City of San Francisco Oracle.  40 pages. Vol. I, No. 8. Undated, 1967. Lead article “Dialogue with a Western Astronomer and an Eastern Philosopher.”
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  Second printing of above, with variant colors on cover.
• The City of Saint Francis Oracle. 32 pages. Volume One, Number Nine. August 1967. Lead article “On Programing the Psychedelic Experience.”
• The City of Saint Francis Oracle. Second printing of above, with variant colors on cover.
• The City of San Francisco Oracle.  32 pages. Vol. One, Number 10. October 1967. Lead article “A Call to Celebration.”
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  32 pages. Volume One, Number 11.  No month, 1967.
• City of San Francisco Oracle.  32 pages. Volume One, Number 12.  February 1968. Lead article “2000 A.D. Symposium” with Alan Watts, Herman Kahn and Carl Rogers.

Complete run of the underground newspaper published in 12 issues from September 20, 1966, to February 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.  Allen Cohen (1940–2004), the editor during the paper's most vibrant period, and Michael Bowen, the art director, were among the founders of the publication. Ron and Jay Thelin, owners of The Psychedelic Shop at 1535 Haight Street, were the financial backers and sometime managing editors of the periodical.  The first issue is called P.O. Frisco ("P.O." stood for "Psychedelphic Oracle") which lasted for a single issue, under the editorship of Dan Elliot and Richard Sassoon.The paper wound up satisfying no one due to divisions between those involved in production, and the Thelin brothers threatened to terminate their financial support unless the paper was completely reinvented. Thus there was a second Vol. I, No. 1. The dynamic color covers began with Number 6, and the different printings may be identified by the variation in the colors. A complete run of the newspaper, such as this, with the variant printings, is very rare, and possibly unique to the market. Provenance: The Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street. With a sheet of letterhead from the shop signed by proprietor Jay Thelin.