Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] New Year's Eve ” Schrafft’s expanded steadily throughout

” Schrafft’s expanded steadily throughout the 20s and 30s and its employment policies were also far ahead of its time – it employed many women as cooks

and no one will bother him

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

The three story Gardiner Tavern stood on the north bank of the Umpqua river

It was to be the biggest terminal in the world

Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] New Year's Eve ” Schrafft’s expanded steadily throughoutAlso 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