You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Liverpool they were about to close

they were about to close their factory in Paris and move to the United States

These tests were successful enough for Lyons to take over catering at Olympia

He thought there must be a better way for diners to ensure this never happened again and he launched a new enterprise called The Diner’s Club

Its early origins on Cape Cod

proprietor of the Sansom House and the Sunken Gardens restaurants

You Name It, I'll Drink It Pink Elephants, San Francisco, 1930s [Square Prints] Liverpool they were about to closeAlso available as a portrait format 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