"Burma Shave" signs

[Gary/IA]

I just noticed a new set of Burma Shave signs along the highway about 7 miles from my home. It believe one set is supposed to be put up in each of Iowa's 99 counties.

I zipped by in my modern car and was unable to read all the signs (to close together). I guess I will have to go by them in the "A" to be able to read them all.

 

[Merc Cruzer]

Pictures please.....

 

[Keith True]

Iowa has 99 counties? I guess I never gave any thought to how many counties states might have I think we have 6 in N.H.My grandfather took down dozens of Burma-Shave signs.They were just the right height to nail 4 together to make a box to set in the brook and raise minnows in.

 

[palmaceae]

There is one in Armstrong Iowa, drive past it everyday, it changes every 3 months or so.

 

[Dennis L Oberer]

There is a Burma Shave sign series on the highway on the way to IOLA WI. It is just as you enter Symco from the east. I will write down what it says next time I am that way and post it here.

Dennis L Oberer
Green Bay WI

Contrary to rumors..quite alive and well....as this post proves.

 

[Skeezixx]

My all time favorite Burma Shave sign was:

Dinah Didn't ........

 

[Skeezixx]

Treat him right........

 

[Skeezixx]

But if he'd shave

 

[Skeezixx]

Dinah might.

 

[Skeezixx]

Burma Shave

 

[pdora]

Burma Shave Repository here.

 

[Clem Clement]

She eyed his beard
and said no dice
The wedding's
I'll cook the rice
Burma Shave

 

[marc hildebrant]

30 day's has September
April June
And the Speeding Offender

Burma Shave

 

[marc hildebrant]

Within This Vail
Of Toil and Sin
The Head Grows Bald
But Not Your Chin

Burma Shave

 

[marc hildebrant]

When our familly drove to our Cousin's in Vestal ,New York from Westwood, Ma., we would see a number of Burma Shave signs on route 7 in New York.

Always a fun time that parents and children liked....not too much of that today !

Marc

 

[Bruce]

I think these are from the world's best roadside attraction -- House on the Rock.

 

[Clydes 31 P/U]

I've got a book by Frank Rowsome Jr. called "the verse by the side of the road" about the Burma Shave signs, Has 600 "Roadside Rhymes" Fun reading Clyde

 

[Jon-Ohio]

The monkey took
one look at Jim
and threw the peanuts
back at him
he needed
Burma Shave

 

[Tom Wesenberg]

When our familly drove to our Cousin's in Vestal ,New York from Westwood, Ma., we would see a number of Burma Shave signs on route 7 in New York.

Always a fun time that parents and children liked....not too much of that today !

Marc

Yep, every Friday was payday for dad, so every Friday night we would drive the 1954 Ford Country Squire, ( later the 1960 Valiant station wagon) to Palmyria, N.Y. for groceries. I'd ride along and spend my time at the dime store or at the hobby shop or town park. We always went past a set of Burma Shave signs, but I don't recall the rhym.

We also crossed over the old Erie canal. I wonder what that looks like now?

 

[Pete]

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