Burma Shave Signs

[DUD]

Those Grand Old "Burma Shave" Road Signs........



TRAINS DON'T WANDER



ALL OVER THE MAP



'CAUSE NOBODY SITS



IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP



Burma Shave



SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH



BY MISTAKE



SHE THOUGHT IT WAS



HER HUSBAND JAKE



Burma Shave



Remember these?

DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD



TO GAIN A MINUTE



YOU NEED YOUR HEAD



YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT



Burma Shave



DROVE TOO LONG



DRIVER SNOOZING



WHAT HAPPENED



NEXT IS NOT AMUSING



Burma Shave



BROTHER SPEEDER



LET'S REHEARSE



ALL TOGETHER



GOOD MORNING, NURSE



Burma Shave



CAUTIOUS RIDER



TO HER RECKLESS DEAR



LET'S HAVE LESS BULL



AND MORE STEER



Burma Shave



SPEED WAS HIGH



WEATHER WAS NOT



TIRES WERE THIN



X MARKS THE SPOT



Burma Shave



THE MIDNIGHT RIDE



OF PAUL FOR BEER



LED TO A WARMER



HEMISPHERE



Burma Shave



AROUND THE CURVE



LICKETY-SPLIT



BEAUTIFUL CAR



WASN'T IT?



Burma Shave



NO MATTER THE PRICE



NO MATTER HOW NEW



THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE



IN THE CAR IS YOU



Burma Shave



A GUY WHO DRIVES



A CAR WIDE OPEN



IS NOT THINKIN'



HE'S JUST HOPIN'



Burma Shave



AT INTERSECTIONS



LOOK EACH WAY



A HARP SOUNDS NICE



BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY



Burma Shave



BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL



EYES ON THE ROAD



THAT'S THE SKILLFUL



DRIVER'S CODE



Burma Shave



THE ONE WHO DRIVES



WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING



DEPENDS ON YOU



TO DO HIS THINKING



Burma Shave



CAR IN DITCH



DRIVER IN TREE



THE MOON WAS FULL



AND SO WAS HE.



Burma Shave



And my all time favorite:



PASSING SCHOOL ZONE



TAKE IT SLOW



LET OUR LITTLE



SHAVERS GROW



Burma Shave





And remember:

Don't stick your elbow

Out so far

It may go home

In another car.



Burma Shave

[JR]

Boy, do those take me back!

Having grown up in a military family, we moved a lot. It seems I spent the decades 50's and 60's in the back of a station wagon. We always carved a niche out of the "back-back" for me, so my sisters could fight for their halves of the back seat in peace.

Burma Shave signs were always appreciated as a small break in the tedium of hours on the road. Much of this travel was before, or just at the beginning of, the interstate highway system. A two-lane road marked with Burma Shave poetry, ending with the glow of a Holiday Inn sign. Pure heaven in my fuzzy memory.

Also important were the signs announcing the number of miles to Kit Carson's Caverns, a place I still haven't seen even after having used all the whining, cajoling, promising and praying I could muster.

Route 66 was more than a piece of American romanticism for me. It formed a real thread in the narative of my youth.

Sorry for getting carried away. I guess Burma Shave fired a dormant synapse.

JR

[L. D. Jeffries]

OK, lets fess up. How many of ya' all know what Dud was talking about. If you do that dates you, just like me. Happy motering!

[softop41]

Burma Shave signs

Ditto on the military travel - transferred schools 7 times in 9 months in 4th grade and all the travel was by car pulling a house trailer so I remember them well.
Jerry

[LinuxRandal]

OK, lets fess up. How many of ya' all know what Dud was talking about. If you do that dates you, just like me. Happy motering!

Hmm, dates me huh?
I know about the old Burma shave signs, although they used to be spread further apart at railroads. Here I thought he had either ridden a train lately, or watched The World's Fastest Indian (great movie).
Did I happen to mention, I took an age test, and knew more (tested older by 30 years) then my mother (now 60, as we just had her suprise bday).

[LarryG]

Burma Shave signs and those black See Rock City! barns are inarguably the two things I most remember from road trips during my youth (with my parents driving, of course: I was too young). Sad that both have all but disappeared from the American landscape.

I say "all but" because I recall seeing some Burma Shave signs somewhere out west, just a few years ago. Don't remember where it was and I'm certain they had to have been modern reproductions; still, seeing "The Verse By The Side Of The Road" again made me smile. And there's a very dilapidated but still legible Rock City barn within 30 miles of here.

[DUD]

Larry I still see a Rock City sign every now and again, haven't seen a Burma Shave sign in a long time. Bill

[ironhat]

You guys had better get a photo of those barns before they go the way of the Mail Pouch Tobacco barns - gone forever.

[germdoc]

I grew up in Chatt. and have been to Rock City more times than I can count. I have seen 7 states from the top of Lookout Mtn., seen the little elves' village and squeezed through "Fat Man's squeeze".

I also stole a kiss in Ruby Falls cave when they turned the lights out.

[Sam Conder]

I grew up in the '70's and used to beg to stop at the Stuckey's Candyland truckstops with the candystriped roofs. Dang... now I'm craving a pecan log!

[KenBurris]

Oh !

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I also stole a kiss in Ruby Falls cave when they turned the lights out.[/quote]


That was You, Jeff ?

[ironhat]

That was You, Jeff ?

Bwah-haha!!!