You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Henry Voigt and was one of the

and was one of the windy city's best loved restaurants

Oscar Peterson

New York restaurants like The Music Bar were lively spots in the 1940s

Home of the Purified Lobster

it is beautifully evocative of the fine art of French dining and the era

You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Henry Voigt and was one of theAlso 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