Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The restaurant opened for breakfast

The restaurant opened for breakfast and served meals till late

Judging by the prices of children’s meals

Two champagnes were also on offer

The finely clothed French gentleman on the right asks his companion

The Silver Streak Zephyr was a train service that operated in the American Midwest and which ran from 1940 through 1959

Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The restaurant opened for breakfastAlso 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