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| | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | My wife found this on one of her quilting pages. The burma shave ads always take me back to being a kid and driving with Dad. I am just barely old enough to remember the last of them. Burma Shave So now I have a signature line...
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Those were the good ole days,, I remember them real well...thanks for posting,,Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 | Still have them around on a couple old roads, also have the barns w/tabacco (mail pouch) ad's.
Thought about one time learning how to do the Mail Pouch Barns, there is really good money in it. There is still a Gentleman from the state of Kentucky that does the barns.
popcorn The Truth is Out There (Mostly thieves have stolen the Burma Shave signs, bring big money at sales) | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 255 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 255 | When I first started in college, our professional fraternity sponsered an antique farm power and machinery show. We filled the entire parking lot for the University stadium with antique farm machinery and on the road leading into parking lot, we placed recreated Burma Shave signs with our own slogans. They were the hit of the show. We got more comments about the signs than anything else at the show.
Ralph | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | The minutes
Some folks
Save through speed
They never even
Live to need
Burma-Shave
1948 | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | A couple of years ago we checked out a documentary movie about the Burmashave ads from the library. It was really interesting. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | Yeah, I saw that too, Cletis. It was good. Reminded me of being a kid on trips with Dad.
Oh, and after posting something to George over in the "Dammit why won't you guys look at this?" thread, I decided to change my favorite jingle. Besides, this one is the same year as my truck.
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 734 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 734 | There's a nursery here in San Diego called Simpson's that's got a bunch of 30's - 50's Chevy trucks scattered about the premises. There's also a bunch of cool old trailers and a couple of big barns with restored trucks and cars and nostalgia. It's a really big nursery so it takes a few seconds to drive by on the old 2 lane hiway. They've got a bunch of the old Burma Shave signs to read as you go past. Really cool place. -David Kustoms-and-Sleds | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 | "He lit a match to check his tank
and now they call him skinless Frank"
Burma Shave 1948 | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,876 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,876 | He who drives
His car wide open- - -
He ain't thinkin'
He's just hopin"!
Burma Shave!
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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