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05-17-2003, 10:15 PM
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5 rivets, 1 loose screw
1966 20' Globetrotter
Saginaw County
, Michigan
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 1,555
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Burma Shave signs
Younger members might not remember these amusing roadsigns where each line of the limerick was posted seperately along the roadway but I sure do and wouldn't it be great to have them back? Wouldn't it be nice to have the kids reading funny limericks instead of fighting over the palm pilot games?
They made long trips less boring and Sunday drives more fun. Ok oldtimers, enter the nostalgic days of yesteryear, put down your rivet shaver and post your favorite Burma Shave jingles.
Remember this one?
Shaving brush
Was like
Old rover
When he died
He died all over
Burma-Shave
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05-17-2003, 11:26 PM
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Aluminut
2004 25' Safari
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, Illinois
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,477
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Being in my early 30s, I find (from what others have told me) that we are pretty much some of the youngest in the Airstream groups.
I read about these signs and think that it was a pretty neat/clever idea.
Today however, as much as I'd like to see them return, the fact is that there are too many things (TVs in cars, DVDs in cars, Palm games, sat radio, game boy, etc, that simply will not allow those special years to come back.
I long for a more simple time, but then I think that if it weren't for a more complicated time, I would prob be unemployed (computers).
Still, when go out boating, even though I take the GPS, I still made myself understand now to navigate without it.
Eric
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05-18-2003, 10:32 AM
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Just an old timer...
2004 22' Interstate
Tipton
, Iowa
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,759
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Wall Drug signs...
And remember that in between the Burma Shave signs were signs giving the mileage to Wall Drug?
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havin' to fix my broken Airstreams since 1987...
AIR 2053 Current: 2004 Airstream Interstate "B-Van" T1N DODGE Sprinter
Former Airstreams: 1953 Flying Cloud, 1957 Overlander, 1961 Bambi, 1970 Safari Special, 1978 Argosy Minuet, 1985 325 Moho, 1994 Limited 34' Two-door, 1994 B190 "B-Van"
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05-18-2003, 11:08 AM
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Contributing Member
2018 Interstate Grand Tour Ext
Austin (Hays County)
, Texas
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,164
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I miss them
My dad liked to take a Sunday afternoon drive around central Pennsylvania; reading the Burma Shave Signs was a big part of the fun for my brothers and I.
Now that I'm a naturalized Texan, this one rings a bell:
To kiss
A mug
That's like a cactus
Takes more nerve
Than it does practice
Burma-Shave .
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John W. Irwin
2018 Interstate GT, "Sabre-Dog V"
WBCCI #9632
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05-18-2003, 03:16 PM
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Rivet Master
1984 29' Sovereign
Savannah
, Missouri
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 3,478
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cute!
That's cute John...
Here's my favorite~!
SAID FARMER BROWN
WHO'S BALD ON TOP
"WISH I COULD
ROTATE THE CROP"
BURMA-SHAVE
ciao
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NEU #64
New England Unit
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05-18-2003, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 544
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They say the mind is the first thing to go: Mike remembers seeing those all over.... cannot remember a single one though !!!!
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05-18-2003, 07:34 PM
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Cartoon Character
2004 34' Classic
On The Road
, U.S.A.
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 885
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There is a great book documenting the Burma Shave campaign. It's called "The Verse by the Side of the Road : The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles" by Frank Rowsome, Jr.
I remember seeing a few back in the late 50s ... in 1961 we moved from Kansas to California ... drove all the way ... saw quite a few on that route!
My favorite one is:
To get away
From hairy apes,
Women jump
For fire escapes.
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05-18-2003, 08:52 PM
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5 rivets, 1 loose screw
1966 20' Globetrotter
Saginaw County
, Michigan
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 1,555
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Also from PA here Pahaska
Was raised in Butler (western PA) and sunday drives in our '49 Willys Jeepster were a family ritual. After we moved to Michigan, we made occasional pilgrimages back to Butler. The 2 things my 2 brothers and I liked the best about those 12 hour trips (no Xways back then) were reading the Burma Shave signs and the
foot long hot dogs at a truck stop in Ohio.
Burma-Shave
Was such a boom
They passed
The bride
And kissed the groom
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05-18-2003, 09:26 PM
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Rivet Master
Austin
, Texas
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 949
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Well before my time on this earth but do remember seeing one spread out on a wall in a local restaurant.
Just a partial memory, maybe someone can fill in the blanks?? Of course it has some reference to shaving, the fuzz of a peach!
(Never mind, I found it on with help of a later post, edited 5/19, thanks mh325)
A peach
looks good
with lots of fuzz
a man's no peach
and never wuz
Burma Shave
Chas
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05-19-2003, 10:17 AM
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2 Rivet Member
1995 25' Excella
Blandford
, Massachusetts
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 34
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On "curves ahead"
Remember, sonny
That rabbit's foot
Didn't save
The bunny.
Burma Shave
There are web sites with virtually all signs saved for posterity. Try www.fiftiesweb.com.
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Bruce Paterson
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05-19-2003, 10:22 AM
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Just an old timer...
2004 22' Interstate
Tipton
, Iowa
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,759
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burma shave site
I was curious... I figured someone had to have a collection of these on-line.
Try this site:
http://www.nidlink.com/~dgookin/burma_shave/
They have them listed by YEAR!
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havin' to fix my broken Airstreams since 1987...
AIR 2053 Current: 2004 Airstream Interstate "B-Van" T1N DODGE Sprinter
Former Airstreams: 1953 Flying Cloud, 1957 Overlander, 1961 Bambi, 1970 Safari Special, 1978 Argosy Minuet, 1985 325 Moho, 1994 Limited 34' Two-door, 1994 B190 "B-Van"
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05-19-2003, 10:30 AM
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Just an old timer...
2004 22' Interstate
Tipton
, Iowa
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,759
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havin' to fix my broken Airstreams since 1987...
AIR 2053 Current: 2004 Airstream Interstate "B-Van" T1N DODGE Sprinter
Former Airstreams: 1953 Flying Cloud, 1957 Overlander, 1961 Bambi, 1970 Safari Special, 1978 Argosy Minuet, 1985 325 Moho, 1994 Limited 34' Two-door, 1994 B190 "B-Van"
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05-19-2003, 12:40 PM
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Rivet Master
Yorkshire
, England
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 685
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Great...
Hi All...
U Kn, U guys makin me cry over here...how come we NEVER had that kind of thing ???...I got a few repo signs of Route 66, plus tin signs of old posters showin Yr old classic cars, an a dozen or so license plates...
I read my R-66 books an c the Jack Rabbit an spaceman, an all the other signs...people say the dinosaur are extinct...WRONG, we still ALIVE .... we ALL live in this place named ENGLAND...what happened 2 U lot...how come U did ALL that CRAZY GREAT stuff?
Was it in the name of advertising ???...an I thought God had a sense of humour when he made ME...well he must have a GREAT day when he made the " STATES "...an I love it all, why do U think we keep on comin over there 4 our vacation...LOL, U Guys take it all serious, all this advertising stuff...take John Deere...an Tupperware...it's an ICON...let's NOT 4get the AIRSTREAM...who remembers the adverts 4 those...tell us abt it, PLEASE, Iy'd LOVE to read abt 'em...
Thank's 4 puttin a smile on my face, enjoy Yr Evening...Chris.....
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It's NICE 2B Important...but it's more Important 2B NICE...Chris.....
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05-20-2003, 01:40 AM
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2 Rivet Member
Ann Arbor
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 96
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learning to read
As we each learned to read, we'd drive our parents crazy reading the Burma Shave signs aloud. Here's my favorite:
Frank lit a match
To check gas tank.
That's why they call him
Skinless Frank!
Burma Shave
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06-26-2003, 06:39 PM
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Rivet Master
1993 30' Excella
whitewater
, north of cheddar curtain
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,259
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The signs were good but....
Can you imagine a yuppie driving by a "Chew Mail Pouch" barn
and thinking"I dont think that nylon would taste very good"
norby
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Illegitimous noncarborundum(dont let the bastards wear you down)
The only true nobility is found through giving good food to your friends- Anton Careme
beauty is in the eye of the beerholder-cosmo fishhawk
if something is too good to be true, its usually gone before i get there-mister boffo
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07-01-2003, 02:42 AM
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Rivet Master
Yorkshire
, England
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 685
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The START
Say Norby...
Don't wanna start anything here...BUT, What the hell is a " CHEW MAIL POUCH "...
Chicago...Start of " ROUTE 66 "...Gangsters...Jerry Springer an Airstream nuts....sounds a real good blend of humanity Y got in Yr Abode....
Windy City too I hear...Mmmm...Chris.....
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It's NICE 2B Important...but it's more Important 2B NICE...Chris.....
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07-01-2003, 04:31 AM
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Rivet Monster
1975 31' Sovereign
1980 31' Excella II
Sprung Leak
, North Carolina
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 7,172
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Chris,
Chew Mail Pouch was a brand of chewing tobacco. Funny part is I know where there is/was a barn with the ad still on it. I live in the deep south where tobacco is still king, slowly being beheaded but still king.
Free, Free
A Trip
To Mars
For
1000
Half Pound
Jars
If I recollect the story someone actually won and got a bus ticket to Mars, Georgia
Aaron
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07-01-2003, 06:28 AM
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Contributing Member
2018 Interstate Grand Tour Ext
Austin (Hays County)
, Texas
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,164
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Mail Pouch
Chris,
Mail Pouch would approach farmers with barns that were visible from the highway and offer to paint the barn if they could place their advertisement on the side visible from the road. Lots of farmers took the offer. When I was a kid, Mail Pouch signs were all over the place, along with the Burma Shave signs.
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2018 Interstate GT, "Sabre-Dog V"
WBCCI #9632
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07-01-2003, 06:37 AM
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3 Rivet Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 240
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"See Rock City" was also a road sign or "Barn roof" that was real popular in the South.
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07-01-2003, 07:00 AM
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Rivet Master
1993 30' Excella
whitewater
, north of cheddar curtain
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,259
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chi.....that todeling town....
Chris.......
the wimen aint bad either.......
norby.....
p.s. jerry springer is from ohio....
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Illegitimous noncarborundum(dont let the bastards wear you down)
The only true nobility is found through giving good food to your friends- Anton Careme
beauty is in the eye of the beerholder-cosmo fishhawk
if something is too good to be true, its usually gone before i get there-mister boffo
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