Pink Elephant Coasters (Set of 4) Provence painted yellow

painted yellow

Perhaps some of them dined here

Another feature of the Trocadero was the telephone dinner whereby customers could place their order by telephone

The fair's motto was "Science Finds

Describing itself as "New York's most Spanish Restaurant - As Spanish as Spain"

Pink Elephant Coasters (Set of 4) Provence painted yellowArtwork adapted from the original 1930s restaurant art. Set of four cork backed coasters (10x10cm), made in the UK, with a wipe clean hard wearing gloss finish surface. The euphemism seeing pink elephants was first used in the 19th century to describe the hallucinations experienced by drinkers of absinthe, the anise flavoured and highly alcoholic beverage associated with bohemian culture, especially among artists and writers in Paris. Vincent Van