I Couldn't Lift This Barrel Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) This 1973 menu

This 1973 menu

500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed

" Walter Clark died in 1990 at the age of 93

Courtesy Private Collecton

During its existence (1846-1976)

I Couldn't Lift This Barrel Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) This 1973 menuAlso 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