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 ...

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 ...

Approximately 1.3 billion billboards line Interstate 4 through Orlando, and that’s just counting advertisements for personal injury lawyers. “Dan Got Me $300,000!” At this point, I’d hire Dan Newlin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does this bring back any memories? If it does, your age is showing (but probably not your whiskers). What well-known soap Could shave your chin And leave you with a hairless grin? It advertised in '26 ...

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, ...

BUENA VISTA TWP. — Bill Wright has a light-hearted vision to increase business traffic in Buena Vista that plays off the old highway sign theme of Burma-Shave. The former Saginaw County planning ...

If you were born in the 1940s or earlier as I was, you likely remember the Burma-Shave road signs. Before the Thruway we always took Route 9W to Albany. Just north of the Hamlet of Hannacroix on the ...

You know how life sometimes shows you billboards? Last week I got a Burma-Shave sign. In the middle of the last century, Burma-Shave’s marketing strategy involved placing small signs along roadways ...