Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope entertaining the troops. (Courtesy Photo) We could use some Burma-Shave signs, too. And, how about some clean TV ads, like the late Clara Peller taking Wendy’s to task ...

Burma-Shave was a popular shaving cream, starting in 1925. Roadside signs with sequential five-line poems were a memorable advertising campaign. Around 600 poems were used on signs all across the ...

Burma Shave-style signs line the entrance road to Ruth B. Kirby Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park. Photo by John Moran But as I drove through the gate, what caught my eye and left me wondering was a ...

Burma-Shave sales declined, and Gillette Foamy and other shaving creams also siphoned off buyers. But the final blow for Burma-Shave came in 1963, when the O’Dells sold the company to the American ...

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.

When it was clear Arliss French would reach 900 jars, Burma-Shave had to figure out how to save face.

Burma-Shave signs were red with white lettering. Each of the small roadside signs had a line of poetry, and each sign was placed about 100 feet apart so that the poems could be read in sequence by ...

as well as highways and the last word of this burma shave sequence my grandkids didn't recognize: "If hugging on highways – Is your sport Turn in your car – For a davenport!" 2022 Jacqueline Jackson ...