The Original Love Calendar 1968*69

Where to go and how to feel after the Summer of Love.

This original ‘Love Calendar’ was designed by David Stahlberg and published in 1968 by Studio 52, a division of Acme Colorgraphics. It runs September 1968 through August 1969 (a school year rather than a calendar year) and hands every month its own theme and its own container, so the dates thread through a rippling banner, a brick wall, a basket of flowers, a phrenologist’s head, a paperback cover, a hot rod, and a heart packed with beads and bells. Collectively, the image offers a message of hope for those coming down from the Summer of Love.

 September is “Sounds,” its days running past Acid Rock and Soul and bands called Mary’s Restaurant, Second Edition, and the Thankful Dead. October borrows its title from the Jefferson Airplane. December is a glossary of slang – cop out, crash pad, wig out, do your thing. January is a spread of lapel buttons, Flower Power and Banana Power alongside “Draft Beer Not Students.” April maps the head shops and bookstores city by city: Peace Eye and Limbo in New York, the Print Mint and the Psychedelic Shop in San Francisco, Toast & Strawberries in Washington, the Tarot Castle in Los Angeles. July lists heroes – Bogart, JFK, Dylan, McQueen, Snoopy, McLuhan, Ringo, John, Paul. February maps “Where It’s At” onto a brain, with signposts to Haight-Ashbury, Carnaby Street, the East Village, and Liverpool. May, titled “Love After Thirty,” is entirely at the expense of everyone’s parents.