Pink Elephant (Gin), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930s

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Pink Elephant (Gin), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930sThe 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. 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 the 1950s as a way of describing someone who had drunk too much. I was seeing

but it was a mere shell

The age of commercial air travel was well under way

On August 13

This is an entertainments menu

a lawyer called Frank X McNamara was embarrassed when the bill arrived and he realised he was short of cash

A demonic chef adorns the cover of this menu with the unwritten message'

Armenonville

Tina Turner and Wayne Newton

It was demolished in 1927 to make way for the new Hotel Paxton

Eric Sloane died in New York in 1985 aged 80

There are lobsters from Sardinia for (translation) those who don’t score goals

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