We have all waxed nostalgic for Burma Shave signs. Perhaps one of the most famous and successful marketing campaigns of the last century. The Odell family developed the signs and many of the initial jingles before getting average Americans involved. Traveling by roads were made better when you could read a Burma Shave signs. Truly a bygone product from a bygone era. See more details here on the history of Burma Shave. http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/mthomas.htm I have started a collection of Burma Shave ads and various items. Feel free to add to it.
I guess I haven't been around long enough to have seen any of these but either way...AWESOME!!! Thanks so much for putting these pic's together. Michael
That is a fantastic set of pictures, my dad used to tell me about those signs when he drove across the country. Thanks for those pictures.
Oh, those were the good old days. Grew up in Dallas and would go to Oklahoma every month to see my grandmother and once a year we would take a trip to California to see my other grandmother. The highways to both destinations going both ways were covered with Burma Shave signs.
Well, you would probably have to be gray haired, have loose skin under you chin/jaw line, maybe balding, and a pot belly. I know I meet those qualifications.
I see you live in the UK and don't believe these type of signs were ever over there. Just us crazy Americans would post signs like this from coast to coast on every road we could.
These signs were disappearing from the landscape about the time you were born, or maybe even 10-years before you were born.
