Drinks Are On Me Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) On August 13

On August 13

is a perfect example of the creative mastery of vintage menu and restaurant accessory artists

the beginning of air service from Los Angeles to New York

The restaurant was located on the banks of the Seine in Bougival

a German immigrant who pioneered a new type of construction that used reinforced concrete in buildings instead of wood

Drinks Are On Me Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) On August 13Also 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