Pink Elephant (Barrel of Beer), The Cellar Bar, San Francisco’s Geary Theatre 1930s

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Pink Elephant (Barrel of Beer), 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

One night in 1940

Due to the cost of advertising

The last Howard Jonson’s Restaurant closed down in January 2017 in Lake George

The sign was identified as the largest restaurant sign' he'd seen by writer Wes Izzard of the Amarillo Daily News

'50s and '60s run by Russian immigrant Arthur Winarick and his family

Eddie went to sea aged fifteen with intention of becoming an ship's officer

but loss of many important foods to go around

The resorts slogan was “Stop at the Sign of the Windmill

The menu has been handwritten in ink by a servant

the hotel guest who took this menu as a souvenir in 1924 was probably a wealthy person on a Grand Tour of Europe

there were only seven hotels on the Strip

The Trocadero