Pink Elephant (You Name It), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930s

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Pink Elephant (You Name It), 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

HoJo’s 28 flavors of ice cream

three eyes from an Irish potato and Aroma of Empty Custard Pie Plate

The menu features high-quality preparations

By the mid-1960s

and eyes that are weary of searching out some succulent specialty on the average menu

Tables were covered in white tablecloths and there was a piano for entertainment

dine and dance was 75c on weekdays and $1

the last of two oyster companies

ballroom dancing and billiards and table tennis

He was lured to a telephone booth where he was shot to death

September 21

George Raft