The Burma Shave Signs By The Side Of The Road.

[Meanderer]

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/waterman37.html

 

[Pappy]

Oh yes. These were popular when I was a teenager. They had some good sayings.

 

[RadishRose]

What fun Meanderer! I have seen a few Burma Save signs.

Say, is Sticky Valves riden' with you tonight?

 

[Meanderer]

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[Meanderer]

What fun Meanderer! I have seen a few Burma Save signs.

Say, is Sticky Valves riden' with you tonight?

Liked your ad! Seems there was a whole gang: Dirty Sludge, Blacky Carbon, Sticky Valves, Gummy Rings & a Fem Fetal named ?

 

[Meanderer]

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[Falcon]

I always got a kick out of those signs going cross-country ever since I was a kid.

 

[JustBonee]

 

[JustBonee]

 

[Meanderer]

Good ones Bonnie!! Many still "rely on horn"....."instead of brake"!

 

[Meanderer]

60 MPH doesn't seem fast today!

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[Meanderer]

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[Pam]

Many thanks, Meanderer for an interesting topic! I'd never heard of Burma-shave and/or the history behind it.

 

[Meanderer]

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Growin Old........And a Beard......Better Shave....Don't Look......Weird.......Burma Shave

 

[Sunny]

I think the first Burma Shave ad went:

While in this vale
Of toil and sin
Your head grows bald
But not your chin.

Burma Shave

 

[Meanderer]

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[Susie]

Evokes so many memories from the past! Remember vividly traveling up the Feather river with Aunt Rose and Onkel Rudolph to our favourite picnic spot and seeing many of these signs along the way, (1935/36).
Just love the photos, and thanks so much, Meanderer, for starting this topic.

 

[Meanderer]

Evokes so many memories from the past! Remember vividly traveling up the Feather river with Aunt Rose and Onkel Rudolph to our favourite picnic spot and seeing many of these signs along the way, (1935/36).
Just love the photos, and thanks so much, Meanderer, for starting this topic.

Welcome to the forum Susie, hope you like it here.

 

[Meanderer]

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[Butterfly]

I remember the Burma Shave signs from when I was a kid. They were all along Route 66. We used to go from California to Oklahoma to see my grandparents.

I thought they were a hoot (the signs, not my grandparents).

 

[Meanderer]

 

[ChiroDoc]

Seeing and reading those sequential signs was a blast! It really broke up the tedious travel in rural Ohio during the '50s. They were normally spaced so far apart that they couldn't be read until you drove up on them.

I didn't realize until much later that they were used in almost all of the U.S. States. Sadly I think they pretty much went out with Norman Rockwell...

 

[dilettante]

Back in the '50s through '60s we had some local ones in the countryside between towns. One went:

Fatty, Fatty​

Run for your life​

Here comes Skinny​

With an Olsen knife!​

 

[SueBee]

My brother and I really enjoyed those signs during road trips with my parents across the southwest. While living in Southern California, one of my favorite places to visit was Oak Glen, a cute, apple-growing, little town above Yucaipa. On the drive up the mountain, one of the orchards had similar to Burma Shave signs along the way. They always brought back happy memories.