Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) taxing tea

taxing tea

1920s Effects of pollution evident

so charismatic

all without budging from their automobiles

just 19 years old

Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) taxing teaAlso 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