Burma-Shave Slogans #2
May 22, 2016 10:35:42 #
Altho insured
Remember, kiddo
They don’t pay you
They pay
Your widow
Burma-Shave
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
Remember, kiddo
They don’t pay you
They pay
Your widow
Burma-Shave
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
May 22, 2016 10:52:53 #
melismus
Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country
I have heard that early in the Space Age they put out a set that read:
Save nine hundred
empty jars.
Win a one-way
trip to Mars
Burma Shave
And they were floored when someone actually sent them 900 jars.
They solved it by sending a ticket to Mars, Germany.
(I googled it; there is such a town!)
Save nine hundred
empty jars.
Win a one-way
trip to Mars
Burma Shave
And they were floored when someone actually sent them 900 jars.
They solved it by sending a ticket to Mars, Germany.
(I googled it; there is such a town!)
May 22, 2016 10:57:32 #
Drove my dad crazy one year traveling back to Michigan from Oregon to see my grand parents. During 1951, when I was 8 years old. READ EVERY set of BurmaShave signs both ways cross country... plus many more. As I recall Burma Shave was a dry shaving creme you rubbed on your face and shaved with a razor. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!! Not even at 8 years old.
Over 600 sets if Burma Shave jingles posted on US highways between 1926 and 1963. They made my trips during the Forties and Fifties.
Worthy way to spend a Sunday, here:
http://burma-shave.org/
And here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
Over 600 sets if Burma Shave jingles posted on US highways between 1926 and 1963. They made my trips during the Forties and Fifties.
Worthy way to spend a Sunday, here:
http://burma-shave.org/
And here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
May 22, 2016 12:55:17 #
Oh don't ya miss the days of cross country travel WITHOUT air conditioning, tubeless tires, seatbelts, and FM radio.
If I have to stop this car..............................
If I have to stop this car..............................
May 22, 2016 13:35:38 #
We would be driving along and my Dad would say Burma Suave; we would all look and read them and laugh. My Mother would write them down. I have no idea where they are now. How can you forget these little signs?
May 22, 2016 14:10:34 #
T_Span wrote:
Oh don't ya miss the days of cross country travel WITHOUT air conditioning, tubeless tires, seatbelts, and FM radio.
If I have to stop this car..............................
If I have to stop this car..............................
Or, "Don't make me come back there!"
May 22, 2016 17:20:07 #
The memories are comical at this time but the weight those words carried was HUGE.
May 22, 2016 20:05:21 #
May 23, 2016 06:14:58 #
Years ago a midwest comedian named Herb Shriner joked that his home town was so small that it was located between two Burma Shave signs.
May 23, 2016 06:45:52 #
My favorite:
Round the bend
Car was whizzen
Fault was her'n
Funeral his'n
Burma Shave
Round the bend
Car was whizzen
Fault was her'n
Funeral his'n
Burma Shave
May 23, 2016 06:50:51 #
May 23, 2016 06:51:41 #
melismus wrote:
I have heard that early in the Space Age they put out a set that read:
Save nine hundred
empty jars.
Win a one-way
trip to Mars
Burma Shave
And they were floored when someone actually sent them 900 jars.
They solved it by sending a ticket to Mars, Germany.
(I googled it; there is such a town!)
Save nine hundred
empty jars.
Win a one-way
trip to Mars
Burma Shave
And they were floored when someone actually sent them 900 jars.
They solved it by sending a ticket to Mars, Germany.
(I googled it; there is such a town!)
Funny.
May 23, 2016 07:54:43 #
This is a fun topic. After we're all through straining the gray matter trying to remember these ditties maybe someone will enter all 600 of them - they are in the book, "The Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles with All 600 of the Roadside Rhymes Included" 1966 by Frank Rowsome. I gave the copy I received in the late '60's to a friend in the hospital who passed it on to another bed-ridden soul.
~Lee
~Lee
May 23, 2016 08:52:09 #
f8bengal
Loc: West Nawth Carolinah
Earliest one I remember:
If you don't know
Whose signs these are
You haven't driven
Very far.
Burma Shave
If you don't know
Whose signs these are
You haven't driven
Very far.
Burma Shave
May 23, 2016 09:25:49 #
Don't ever try
To pass on a slope
Unless you brought
Your parascope
Burma Shave
Remembered from a trip across the desert when I was 4...
To pass on a slope
Unless you brought
Your parascope
Burma Shave
Remembered from a trip across the desert when I was 4...
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