You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] 1852 Located at 1604 Broadway in

Located at 1604 Broadway in Times Square

showing two men dressed as old-fashioned jesters

~ Ralph Drybrough

We are sure the customers were in on the joke

Italian and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s

You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] 1852 Located at 1604 Broadway inAlso available as a square 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 popular up to