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Burma Shave signs became an America icon during their time. The Smithsonian Institution preserved some Burma Shave signs because of its popularity. Here are some samples of their sign verses:

DON’T STICK YOUR ELBOW

OUT TOO FAR

IT MIGHT GO HOME

IN ANOTHER CAR BurmaShave

 

DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD

TO GAIN A MINUTE

 YOU NEED YOUR HEAD

YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT BurmaShave

 

DROVE TOO LONG

DRIVER SNOOZING

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

IS NOT AMUSING BurmaShave

 

TO KISS A MUG

THAT’S LIKE A CACTUS

TAKES MORE NERVE

THAN IT DOES PRACTICE BurmaShave

 

CAUTIOUS RIDER

TO HER RECKLESS DEAR

LET’S HAVE LESS BULL

AND MORE STEER BurmaShave

 

SPEED WAS HIGH WEATHER

WAS NOT TIRES WERE THIN

X MARKS THE SPOT BurmaShave

 

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL FOR BEER

LED TO A WARMER HEMISPHERE BurmaShave

 

MY JOB IS KEEPING FACES CLEAN

AND NOBODY KNOWS DE STUBBLE I’VE SEEN BurmaShave

 

NO MATTER THE PRICE

NO MATTER HOW NEW

THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE

IN THE CAR IS YOU BurmaShave

 

THE WHALE PUT JONAH

DOWN THE HATCH

BUT COUGHED HIM UP

BECAUSE HE SCRATCHED BurmaShave

 

SAID FARMER BROWN

WHO’S BALD ON TOP

 “WISH I COULD

ROTATE THE CROP” BurmaShave

 

LEAVES FACE SOFT

AS WOMAN’S TOUCH

YET DOESN’T COST

YOU NEAR AS MUCH BurmaShave

 

THE ONE WHO DRIVES

WHEN HE’S BEEN DRINKING

DEPENDS ON YOU

TO DO HIS THINKING BurmaShave

 

CAR IN DITCH

DRIVER IN TREE

THE MOON WAS FULL

AND SO WAS HE. BurmaShave

 

PASSING SCHOOL ZONE

TAKE IT SLOW

LET OUR LITTLE

SHAVERS GROW BurmaShave

 

A WHISKERY KISS

FOR THE ONE YOU ADORE

 MAY NOT MAKE HER MAD

BUT HER FACE WILL BE SORE Burma Shave

 

Burma Shave was one of the world's first brushless shaving cream manufacturers and spawned heavy competition for their product, but this certain company had an upper hand in winning over customers. Burma Shave signs were the precursor to modern billboard signs on America's earliest roads. They were an interesting diversion from long drives and began to spring up all over the country throughout the mid-twentieth century. The signs were often humorous jingles that were placed at intervals along the road, each sign showing one line of the four-part rhyme until the last sign which concluded the clever advertising scheme with Burma-Shave  

GOOD MORNING !

I remember riding in the car on the long trip to my grandparents and reading these signs along the roadside. What a great part of history they were! I guess it means you’re getting old when something in your own lifetime is in the Smithsonian!

***BIG SMILE***

 

May your day be filled with a few smiles and a little sunshine to warm your heart !

MA

 

Thought for today-

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other

 Mother Teresa

 

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