Author and poet Joan Raskin led his San Francisco Examiner review of Hank Rosenfeld’s book KSAN the Jive 95 via a chat with KSAN veteran Peter Laufer. “I was then and still am in love with radio,” Laufer told Raskin, “which is the most magical and visual of media.”

Raskin noted, “Before Laufer came to KSAN he worked at KSFO where he was fired because he refused to cut his long hair. At KSAN he was encouraged to keep his hair long.” True, as this period photograph proves (Laufer and his hair are the images on the bottom of the poster.

An early 1970s poster for the KSAN Gnus in San Francisco.

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