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Beacon Street's hard era ends for ex bar girl turned city figure
Sylvia Zankich, once a taxi dancer on Beacon Street, now 61, runs a bail bonds office and serves as an ex mayor and honorary mayor of San Pedro. She recalls Shanghai Red and a era of bootleg clubs, gambling, and police indifference as old-timers fade from the rough coastal street.
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Shanghai
San Pedro
Sylvia Zankich
Charles Eisenberg
Shanghai Red
S. Beacon St
Harbor Division
Los Angeles
Louie
Olympic
Ignacia
Ralph Arendain
Our Cafe
Beacon Street
Earl Warren
Pat Brown
Leo Carrillo
Gilbert Roland
Eugene Biscailuz
Our
al Miller
Judy Kaplan
Hirschman’s
Frank Odaka
Frank
Black Hawk
N.J
Long Beach
Shaw
Nate Crawley
Fourth and
Beacon
Nate
New Yorker
Police Department
Seventh and
Seventh Heaven