Charles Eisenberg, aka Shanghai Red – the end of Shanghai Reds

A few years ago I blogged about Charles Eisenberg, aka Shanghai Red, a merchant marine sailor originally from Philadelphia who, after serving in World War 1, passed through Shanghai in the early 1920s, liked it, opened a bar, later returned, around 1935, to San Pedro and opened Shanghai Red at #433 Beacon Street. Shanghai Red died in 1957. Looking around a bit the other day I found a picture of the sad end of the bar… both below

Eisenberg became known as ‘the Mayor of Beacon Street’