Pink Elephant (Morning After), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930s

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Pink Elephant (Morning After), 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

there was always a fun atmosphere in the restaurant and Otto’s wife Bertha – who preferred to be known by her nickname Bertie – was a welcoming presence

manpower and production

-3 ounces lemonade

shows a train and a truck busily delivering goods around the country while a scientist is hard at work in a laboratory

began life as a pharmacy and soda fountain in Quincy

it was set amid the Kodachrome palette of penny arcades

There are great graphics on this menu and cute illustrations – look at the feet of the man sitting at the table with his girlfriend

This 1957 menu from The Harbor restaurant on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara was kept by a lady as a souvenir of a first date but is now in our hands

showing two men dressed as old-fashioned jesters

Leon & Eddie's started life as a Prohibition speakeasy and became one of New York's leading nightclubs and restaurants in the 1930s and 40s

Mike Lyman was a former vaudeville entertainer who opened his first Mike Lyman’s Grill in downtown LA in 1935

Table ďhôte dinner menu dated August 11

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