I Like Gin Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Miami The hotel closed in 1964

The hotel closed in 1964 and the building reopened in 2004 as The Paxton Grand Condominium

was the flagship passenger train of the Lehigh Valley Railroad

transients

and aspiring actors and singers hoping to be noticed

It also pointed out

I Like Gin Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Miami The hotel closed in 1964Also 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