Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] New Year's Eve A lovely handwritten menu from

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

and dishes include Windsor soup

I practically lived on Boylston Street

and no one will bother him

Morning After The Night Before Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] New Year's Eve A lovely handwritten menu fromAlso 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