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Burma-Shave Highway Advertising

burma-shave safety razor dont lose your head advertising sign

Photo: Morphy Auctions

Remember Burma-Shave signs? These sets of small wooden signs advertising shaving cream first appeared by the side of the road in 1925. Each sign had one line of a humorous rhyme. They were placed about every one hundred feet or so. They disappeared about 1964. Mail Pouch tobacco used the painted barn as a huge […]
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