Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) tight bodices and full-length skirts

tight bodices and full-length skirts felt safe enough to go shopping and meet for lunch without male companions

complete with a young bull sitting on the end of Charlotte Harbor and landing a fish

A man-made waterfall greeted me

It is possibly from a ‘housewarming’ banquet for a new restaurant in Rouen

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

Bottoms Up Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) tight bodices and full-length skirtsAlso 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