Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) one of many Sicilian immigrants

one of many Sicilian immigrants who dominated the city's fishing industry at that time

there were still many restaurants that catered to fine dining and The Mayflower – named after the ship that transported the first English Pilgrims from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 – was one of them

some menu illustrations had a morbid/ mischievous sense of humor

was opened by an Englishman named Harry "Sugie" Sugarman in Beverly Hills in 1936

Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) one of many Sicilian immigrantsAlso 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