“San Francisco” Haight Ashbury drawing by Joe GomezCollage created for distribution by Martin Jacobs©1969 offset poster work on lithographic paper. Fair to good condition.inscription: “© 1969 Celestial Arts, 1345 Howard Street, San Francisco 94103 CA50” and “(blacklight poster) international rights reserved Printed By [Orbit Graphic Arts logo] in U.S.A” in pink at the bottom left and right corners.Poster has a purple background with a flower border. Mixed in with the flowers are pins with phrases relevant to the time. At the center is a collage of illustrated black houses and stores. Centered at the bottom on the white edge is “San Francisco” in pink. On the bottom edge at the center is “New” in pink.The original 1968 version (“CA10”) had “Haight Ashbury” in cut-out floral letters (instead of “San Francisco”) and is a 5-color acetate color key framed in the home of the poster’s creator, Martin Jacobs, who owned a 3,000 square foot shop called Haight St. Palace, located at Haight & Masonic from 1967-1970. The shop sold posters, records, buttons, sandals. It was a hangout for the rock stars in the area like Big Brother & Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Grateful Dead. On Saturday nights usually a local group performed and about 500 people showed up.Joe Gomez used to sit outside Haight St. Palace and draw. One day Jacobs offered Gomez $50 to draw a picture of Haight Street for a poster. Jacobs added the flowers with his 35mm camera and the result is this poster. Haight St. Palace can be seen on the bottom row, 6th building from the left. Just above on the left side of the shop you’ll see a small heart that says M.J. and D.L. That stands for Marty Jacobs and Denise Lee, a flower child who Jacobs married and had 5 kids with. On an interesting side note, every Saturday at the Drugstore Cafe on Haight, Jacobs had breakfast with Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.This poster has such a huge historical significance to that era - the love and peace theme and the buttons, flowers, and Haight St. tell a story, and, in 2010, a copy was added to the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum of California.