Signs of a bygone era - Burma Shave

Thanks. This brings back good memories. My father was born in Alabama and he married a girl from New England and settled there. Every year we would go Down South to visit our relatives and he would read the Burma Shave signs to me until I learned to read and then I read them to him. We would both laugh our heads off. My mother never understood why we thought the signs were so funny.

 

Psssst..Buurma Shaave...

 

Burma Shave

 

My Burma Shave Razor. LOL

 

I picked up a Burma Shave mug today:

 

It is nice to see this brought back!

 

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These signs are in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

 

Excellent history lesson which I would never have known about. Thanks for posting!

 

Thanks for all the posts gentlemen! These are awesome. I've never seen a Burma Shave sign and I love this!

 

I used Burma Shave soap this morning, it's a pretty decent product.

 

Another Burma-Shave homage, Ontario (CA)


http://www.insidesocal.com/davidallen/2012/02/20/another-burma-shave-homage-ont/

Burma Shave Carport - SAS Car Collection by Phil Brown

Extra shots can be seen of old cars and memorabilia on his Flickr site.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photochaser_phil/5028772014/



http://stuytownreport.blogspot.com/2013/05/cw-capitalcompass-rock-employs-burma.html

More signs.

http://www.jimscorner.net/Burma.html







http://www.jokelibrary.net/words/q_to_w/burma/shave34.html

 

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Here is a neat little piece on Burma Shave and somewhat their signs. http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mars.asp

 

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