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Burma Shave became the second-biggest shaving cream brand in America. About 7,000 signs eventually popped up in 44 of the 48 states. History doesn’t record exactly how many were in Florida, but ...
Wright, 60, said that during the 1950s at the peak of its advertising campaign, Burma-Shave, a brushless shaving cream company, had thousands of the signs lining highways across the country.
By the late 1930s, Minneapolis-made Burma-Shave became the second-highest-selling brushless shaving cream in the US and was in 17 percent of medicine cabinets.
BURMA-SHAVE was a brand of shaving lotion, distinct from shaving cream, promising men they could save precious time by no longer needing to work up a lather with a brush and mug. Whether the produc… ...
Prompted perhaps by the news last week of Lakewood Township's crackdown on roadside signs, Gilbert's Joseph Legueri got to reminiscing about Burma-Shave, the brushless shaving cream introduced in ...
Allan G. Odell, who developed the roadside advertising campaign of rhyming jingles for Burma Shave that became a fixture of rural America for almost 40 years, died Monday at his home in Edina, Minn.
Burma Shave developed one of the first formulas for brushless shaving cream, ... On this spot / In old times / They made shaving cream / And funny signs.
"Burma Shave" signs were introduced in 1925 to promote a "brush-less" shaving cream. They not only boosted sales, they graced roadways throughout the country until the early 1960s.
Burma-Shave. Reflect on that for a minute which will take you back. No cars had air conditioning so we drove with the windows down. There were no freeways and no Interstates so you had to really ...
My old school paper is still in business. It is called the WHS Searchlight, and it’s produced every so often by a staff of four members of the Class of 1945. That would make them a year older… ...
In the early years of motoring, the Burma-Vita Company found a novel way to advertise its brushless shaving cream. Burma-Shave advertising signs, with their humorous, serial jingles, were spaced far ...