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San Diego Free Press, San Diego 1968–1970 (changed name to San Diego Street Journal) San Francisco Express Times , San Francisco, 1968–1969 (changed name to Good Times ) San Francisco Oracle , San Francisco, 1966–1968
First gathering of member papers, the Underground Press Syndicate, Stinson Beach, CA, March 1967. The Underground Press Syndicate was initially formed by the publishers of five early underground papers: the East Village Other (New York City), the Los Angeles Free Press, the Berkeley Barb, The Paper (East Lansing, Michigan), and Fifth Estate (Detroit, Michigan).
The North American countercultural press of the 1960s drew inspiration from predecessors that had begun in the 1950s, such as the Village Voice and Paul Krassner's satirical paper The Realist. Arguably, the first underground newspaper of the 1960s was the Los Angeles Free Press, founded in 1964 and first published under that name in 1965.
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The Los Angeles Free Press, also called the "Freep", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. [2] The Freep was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971 and continued on as its editor-in-chief through June 1973.
The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO) was an American underground newspaper in New York City, issued biweekly during the 1960s. It was described by The New York Times as "a New York newspaper so countercultural that it made The Village Voice look like a church circular".
Liberation News Service (LNS) was a New Left, anti-war underground press news agency that distributed news bulletins and photographs to hundreds of subscribing underground, alternative and radical newspapers from 1967 to 1981.
NOLA Express was mobilized by an ever-changing ragtag army of street vendors, at its peak selling 11,000 copies every two weeks. [ 3 ] Bukowski's syndicated column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, ran in NOLA Express ; Francisco McBride's illustration for Bukowski's piece "The Fuck Machine" was considered sexist, pornographic, and created an uproar.