The Burma Shave ads live on
A column, some weeks back, listed a whole slew of Burma Shave ads, those relics of the past that dotted our highways back in the 1930s and 40s. We had such a good response to that column, obviously from people who have been around long enough to remember those days and those signs, that we came up with a few more you may remember.
For those too young to remember, just think of it as a simpler time when text messaging wasn't even dreamed of. But messages managed to get to us just the same.
Thanks to Burma Shave for more than just a close shave.
AT INTERSECTIONS
LOOK EACH WAY
A HARP SOUNDS NICE
BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY
BurmaShave
BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER'S CODE
BurmaShave
THE ONE WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING
DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING
BurmaShave
CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE
BurmaShave
PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW
BurmaShave
BENEATH THIS SLAB,
JOHN BROWN IS STOWED,
HE WATCHED THE SIGNS,
AND NOT THE ROAD.
Burma Shave
We'll end this column with some silliness, thanks to the contributions of another reader. Here is the family tree of Vincent Van Gogh:
His dizzy aunt
Verti Gogh
The brother who ate prunes
Gotta Gogh
The brother who worked at a convenience store
Stop N Gogh
The grandfather from Yugoslavia
U Gogh
His magician uncle
Where-diddy Gogh
His Mexican cousin
A Mee Gogh
The Mexican cousin's American half-brother
Gring Gogh
The nephew who drove a stage coach
Wells-far Gogh
The constipated uncle
Can't Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt
Tang Gogh
The bird lover uncle
Flamin Gogh
The fruit-loving cousin
Man Gogh
An aunt who taught positive thinking
Way-to-Gogh
The little bouncy nephew
Poe Gogh
A sister who loved disco
Go Gogh
And his niece who travels the country in an RV
Winnie Bay Gogh
I saw you smiling ... there ya Gogh!
