Burma Shave Signs

Every Second
Without fail
Some store
Rings up
Another sale
Burma-Shave

I suspect most anybody younger than me, as well as a lot of people my age, have never heard of Burma-Shave signs. For those of you that don't know, back during the golden age of automobile travel, the Burma-Shave people would place their advertising signs all over the place. (This was at a time when you could put ads all over everything over every last stretch of highway.) The brief humorous message was split into 6 tiny signs spaced sequentially along the roadside, such as the first three seen here.

The advertising gimmick was discontinued in the 60's at a time where interstates became more common, as well as the Highway Beautification Act cut down on these types of signs. These days, you're not going to see any originals along the sides of the old highways. (I'm sure many were removed in accordance with the Act, and those that survived were probably stolen as collectors items.) The ones seen here are modern reproductions in rural Robertson County at a house that had several old fashioned ads about their property.

For the other Jingles, Burma-Shave is still in business, check their website here.