The First Commercial Billboard in China

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This isn't my best picture, but it is an early one - circa 1979 or 1980.  It was the first commercial billboard in Beijing - I know, because I set it up with the first-ever advertising company in China, McCann-Jardine.  There were billboards before - the one before this exclaimed "We Have Friends All Over World!"  Of course, there weren't any cars in those days, so the best location we could find was in front of a huge parking lot for bicycles, outside one of the government ministries...