Pink Elephants (Bottoms Up Pride Edition), Various Bars, San Francisco, 1930s Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The Black Cat opened in

The Black Cat opened in 1933 as a public dance hall

The legacy of Mike Lyman’s Grills has been further cemented by two tidbits of literary history

There was a limit on what and how a guest could order at The Old Red House

while the diner draped his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and

Pink Elephants (Bottoms Up Pride Edition), Various Bars, San Francisco, 1930s Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The Black Cat opened inA special Pride edition of one of our Pink Elephant prints! 50% from the sale of these prints goes to the LGBT Foundation. 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