Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] New Year's Eve he spent a few months

he spent a few months researching the idea and opened on MacDougal Street – the hippest street in the city at the time

In 1916 the water levels of Lake Washington

27 opened in Los Angeles other restaurateurs spotted the opportunity and copied the drive through concept with their own offereings

A lovely handwritten menu from London's celebrated Claridge's Hotel in Mayfair

and no one will bother him

Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] New Year's Eve he spent a few monthsAlso 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