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Photo of an article from the San Francisco Oracle : The Oracle was the resident newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. This article is a representation of the unconventional style of the area, as even the newspaper there was styled in a way that would be considered highly abnormal in most print news. The Grateful Dead give a free show in the Haight neighborhood in 1968. Free shows were commonplace for the Dead and other bands from the Haight did jam sessions and shows for the people of the area so they could better interact with their audience. “In the Land of the Dark the Ship of the Sun is Driven by the Grateful Dead” – This piece of artwork promoting the Grateful Dead was featured in the sixth issue of The Oracle from 1967. It shows the psychedelic and abstract nature of the band and what they represented. This poster for Country Joe and the Fish appears as many of the posters from the Haight bands did with twisting different sized lettering, bright colors, and curious images. This represents the bands psychedelic feel and nature and captures the uniqueness of their music. Poster advertising the infamous “Acid Tests” run by Ken Kesey where people would all come together and experiment with LSD. This was a key feature of the Haight-Ashbury lifestyle at the time and Jerry Garcia and his partner Mountain Girl both received their Acid Test diplomas. An image from the infamous Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway shows the band performing as one of the Hell’s Angels guards walks in front of them. This concert showcases how the counterculture of the Haight could not be translated into the rest of the world as it broke out in violence and chaos. The 1967 “Death of the Hippies” march in which local people from the Haight marched with a coffin filled with different quintessential “hippie objects” to signify the end of the counterculture movement after the media had taken hold of and ruined it. .

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