Prompted perhaps by the news last week of Lakewood Township's crackdown on roadside signs, Gilbert's Joseph Legueri got to reminiscing about Burma-Shave, the brushless shaving cream introduced in 1923 ...

In June, a “Safety on the Roads” article included 15-20 Burma-Shave roadside signs which were popular in the middle of the last century, before there were interstates and when everyone drove the old ...

Travel on U.S. highways between 1926 and 1963 revealed a common element guaranteed to create comments. A set of six red and white signs alongside the road displayed a catchy, humorous rhyme that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early years of motoring, the ...

Nearly a decade ago Chatfield writer Marion Lund did an article on Burma Shave signs, a feature we grew up with along busy highways. Her facts were, in part, from my friend the late Harvey Bernard, ...

From the mid-1920s to 1963, signs for Burma-Shave shaving cream dotted the American countryside. Of uniform red and white, the signs usually came in series of five or six and were spaced evenly along ...

BRITT - "If you pass, on the yellow line, the funeral will be yours, not mine." The catchy jingle’s message stands out on its bright red signs along old Highway 18 just west of Britt, catching the ...

In a recent article about my enjoyment of figs at my Georgia Grandmother’s at my home in Laurens County and here, I mentioned the long, slow auto trip to South Georgia and the Burma Shave signs which ...