Who remembers "Burmashave"?

[randyrls]

Within this life
of toil and sin
your head grows bald
but not your chin!
----- Burmashave

These signs appeared along roadsides each line on a separate sign spaced out every 50 yards so you could read each one. This one was near my home between Middletown and Elizabethtown PA.

 

[Monty]

Looked forward to spotting them on road trips with my parents.

 

[WriteON]

I do. Early 60's traveling through Florida. Copy&Paste>>>
They used rural roads. The signs were innocuous. Their forte was a little catchy phrase spread along the road. It was cheap and easier than billboards.
A little paint, and whatever kept the farmer happy to have a jingle along his fence line.
You didn't see one they were series four or six in row, a couple of car lengths apart. They were just like six or eight feet tall.
Always ended with the exclaimated "BURMA SHAVE!"
These were the days before the interstate highway system.

 

[Woodchipper]

Someone has published a book that contains all the Burma Shave signs and rhymes. Saw one in a book store and should have bought it.

 

[thewishman]

BEFORE I TRIED IT
THE KISSES I MISSED
BUT AFTERWARD-BOY!
THE MISSES I KISSED
BURMA SHAVE

At least I wished...

 

[carlmorrell]

old fart quiz. burmashave, brylcreem. "A little dab will do ya"

 

[WriteON]

old fart quiz. burmashave, brylcreem. "A little dab will do ya"

old fart quiz. burmashave, brylcreem. "A little dab will do ya"

And Rapid Shave.

 

[WriteON]

And.....

 

[Woodchipper]

I saw a DVD at Cracker Barrel that lists 1,000 TV commercials. Bet some of us have seen most of them...in black & white.

 

[Mike8850]

And Rapid Shave.

Wildroot Cream Oil , Charlie

 

[WriteON]

Poplar 5 0303...

 

[Monty]

Let's not forget the commercials that were bad for us……all the cigarette commercials, like the Marlboro man and Dr's promoting them.

 

[egnald]

We had them in South Dakota along with "Only 284 miles to Wall Drug".

My favorite would have to be

IF YOU DONT KNOW
WHOSE SIGNS THESE ARE
YOU HAVENT DRIEN
VERY FAR
BURMA SHAVE

 

[sbwertz]

My two favorites.

Around the Curve
Lickity Split
Beautiful Car
Wasn't it?
Burma Shave

Beneath this stone lies Tom O'Shea
He died defending is right-of-way
His right was clear and his will was strong
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.
Burma Shave

 

[sbwertz]

Let's not forget the commercials that were bad for us……all the cigarette commercials, like the Marlboro man and Dr's promoting them.

It wasn't until the mid seventies that the link between smoking and lung cancer became known.

 

[sbwertz]

Some others from the fifties.....early TV ads.
"Pictsweet, Pictsweet, Flavor Train."
Bucky the Beaver Ipana toothpaste, "Brusha brusha brusha" "With the brand new tube that stands on its head."