Bottoms Up Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Whenever we look at this

Whenever we look at this 1945 menu cover

Metro Goldwyn Mayer had a stable of big stars including Elizabeth Taylor

along with RMS Queen Elizabeth

This 1946 menu is from the hotel’s Travel Room where guests could dine on cuisines from around the world

Bottoms Up Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Whenever we look at thisAlso 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