Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad

It is possibly from a ‘housewarming’ banquet for a new restaurant in Rouen

Post & Son

some menu illustrations had a morbid/ mischievous sense of humor

one of many Sicilian immigrants who dominated the city's fishing industry at that time

Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The New York Central RailroadAlso 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