Joe Becker Provides Quality in Shanghai in 1941

The idea of a building contractor providing ‘quality service’ these days in Shanghai is about as likely as the Party holding a general election – ain’t going to happen. Don’t know whether or not Joe Becker Real Estate Agents really did provide ‘quality service’ as they claimed but they must have been doing something right to be able to afford offices in Hamilton House on Kiangse Road (Jiangxi Road) – which is still a nice building. If their ad is to be believed then they did deal in good properties though as this ad ran in the North-China Daily News in 1941 you have to ask yourself who was feeling bullish enough to lay down a sizeable deposit on a property in such volatile times?