Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) This 1940s menu cover by

This 1940s menu cover by folk artist Charles Jerred

they wanted to forget about WW2 and let their hair down

There were times when the cafe's walls were covered with artwork that would be the envy of Sotheby's today

the Commodore Hotel was constructed adjacent to Grand Central Station and opened in 1919

adding a Lobster Grotto

Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) This 1940s menu cover byAlso 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