You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] 1852 Each pack includes cards and

Each pack includes cards and envelopes

showing two men dressed as old-fashioned jesters

Italian and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s

The Beverly Hills Hotel was established in 1912 by Margaret J Anderson

~ Ralph Drybrough

You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] 1852 Each pack includes cards andAlso 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