Travel on U.S. highways between 1926 and 1963 revealed a common element guaranteed to create comments. A set of six red and white signs alongside the road displayed a catchy, humorous rhyme that ...

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 1923 ...

Approximately 1.3 billion billboards line Interstate 4 through Orlando, and that’s just counting advertisements for personal injury lawyers. “Dan Got Me $300,000!” At this point, I’d hire Dan Newlin ...

Does this bring back any memories? If it does, your age is showing (but probably not your whiskers). What well-known soap Could shave your chin And leave you with a hairless grin? It advertised in '26 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early years of motoring, the ...

The Empress was besought recently to give another go to a contest we last did 12 years ago: It's for mini-poems written in the style of the old Burma-Shave ads, which used to appear on pre-interstate ...

You know how life sometimes shows you billboards? Last week I got a Burma-Shave sign. In the middle of the last century, Burma-Shave’s marketing strategy involved placing small signs along roadways ...