Charles Eisenberg, aka Shanghai Red

Charlie Eisenberg was a US Navy sailor who passed through Shanghai in the early 1920s, liked it, stayed and opened a bar (which I’m afraid I don’t know the name or location of?? Some have suggested the Bund, but I suspect that’s not quite right. Any takers on that one?). Later, around 1927, Eisenberg, who’d taken on the moniker Shanghai Red, returned to San Pedro and opened a bar on the town’s rather insalubrious Beacon Street called Shanghai Red. He was an almost perfect bar owner for the tough, sailor ridden strip and was quite capable of throwing out anyone who caused trouble – as he is in this photo….Shanghai’s bar business required a certain toughness, San Pedro no less it seems…