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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just received your latest edition of HCN and couldn’t get the Burma Shave lines out of my head. I think bringing information like this up about our checkered history is important (HCN, 10/23/00: ...

“Who has to go now?” rasped Peter Mathews as he eased up on the gas. But this time he was wrong. As he slowed down, the youngsters chanted the legend on the ...

In the fall of 1925, a series of six signs advertising Burma-Shave, a new brushless shaving cream, appeared for the first time along highway 65 from Minneapolis to Albert Lea and on highway 61 to Red ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By the 1920s, commercial signs and ...