Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) showing two men dressed as

showing two men dressed as old-fashioned jesters

The joke was that you were a moron if you were able to finish it

we notice a cub bear

comes from Fergus’ Ark

it promoted Gordon’s gin as the base ingredient for many of its cocktails

Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) showing two men dressed asAlso 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