I'm In The Dog House Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Wrigley This great menu is from

This great menu is from the St Regis restaurant on Airline Highway five miles from downtown New Orleans and is dated 1944 but we think it is actually from the 1950s

With capacity for nearly 4

Charlie Hess was a prominent Philadelphia restaurateur

American and

I'm In The Dog House Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Wrigley This great menu is 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