Bottoms Up Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) ready with a frying pan

ready with a frying pan behind its back

This 1946 menu is from the hotel’s Travel Room where guests could dine on cuisines from around the world

sending them back if they were not

John Coltrane

but we sure had a lot of customers

Bottoms Up Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) ready with a frying panAlso available as a portrait format print. The euphemism seeing pink elephants was first used in the 19th century to describe the hallucinations experienced by drinkers of absinthe, the anise flavored and highly alcoholic beverage associated with bohemian culture, especially among artists and writers in Paris. Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde were well known absinthe drinkers. Absinthe was banned by 1915 but the phrase remained