I Couldn't Lift This Barrel Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] International date Line Darden promoted his expanding restaurant

Darden promoted his expanding restaurant as providing "Service with a Hop

Googie fit into the post-war optimism that lasted until 1964

*Courtesy UNLV Special Collections

Frank Sinatra would sometimes come in and dine with the host at booth 1

and then the "Extension" on Clay Street

I Couldn't Lift This Barrel Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] International date Line Darden promoted his expanding restaurantAlso 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