The most famous and effective roadside ads were erected by a shaving cream company from 1925-1966. The Florida Turnpike even copied them in a campaign. Whatever happened to Burma Shave signs, and ...

A popular 1950s advertising gimmick by Burma-Shave has helped inspire the former Saginaw County Planner to plant the signs around Buena Vista Township.

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 developed one of the first formulas for brushless shaving cream, but it's maybe best known for a catchy ad campaign featuring roadside signs.

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 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… ...

"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.

In its best of times, Burma-Shave became the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States. Those clever signs delighted drivers for decades and enhanced sales.

Burma Shave suffered from the competition of all the emerging shave cream brands, Paul pointed out, but the company instituted an annual contest for the public to enter its own submission for ...

Burma- Shave advertisements originated when roads, even interstate highways, had only two lanes and floor-boarding to 45 miles an hour was speeding. Their purpose was to sell shaving cream, citing ...