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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People still love Burma Shave signs. Neighbors recently carried a story on the rhyming signs which promoted safe driving, or just a good laugh, while pushing Burma Shave shaving cream. They lined ...

You have to be at least 62 years old to remember seeing this unique advertising technique. It was started in 1927, when highway lanes were only 10 feet wide (8 feet in some places), with tight curves ...

This letter originally appeared in 1996. Dear Ann Landers: I am a 15-year-old girl who lives in Danbury, Conn., and have been reading your column ever since I was 11. I understand almost everything ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. In the fall of 1925, a series of six signs advertising Burma-Shave, a new brushless shaving cream, appeared for the ...