Pink Elephant (Drinks Are On Me), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930s

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Pink Elephant (Drinks Are On Me), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930sThe 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. 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 the 1950s as a way of describing someone who had drunk too much. I was seeing

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The elegant illustration at the top of this 1928 menu print shows the vessel ploughing through froth-topped waves towards its next destination

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The delicate menu cover is lovely and has an art nouveau ring to it but it is the interior of this 1919 menu that fascinates

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