Pasadena
Pasadenans, beware! If you’re Japanese, anyway. See, there’s a “giant Negro” on the loose, and he’s a criminal. His crime? Hanging the Japanese upside-down.
Seriously. George Shimanouchi was minding his own business in the garage of his home at 126 Elevado Drive (now Del Mar) when the aforementioned giant negro (hey, not my nomenclature) arrived unbidden and hung the boy upside-down from a rafter.
A Mrs. C. Duncan, 105 Elevado, heard someone yelling for help across the street and called it in; either she took her own sweet time about it or the authorities did, because when Detective Seargeants Mansell and Cheek arrived, Shimanouchi, now semiconscious, had been suspended head-down for nearly an hour.
The boy held the opinion that his assailant planned to rob the house after tying him to the rafter, but officers found no evidence of entry.
(While Hippocrates was a firm believer in inversion therapy, practitioners evidently went to absurd lengths in sharing their craft before its popularization via American Gigolo.)
