Burma-Shave is an unusual American success story because, as highly valued as the product itself was, its advertising was cherished on an entirely higher level. Without its memorable signs and the ...

What well-known soap Could shave your chin And leave you with a hairless grin? It advertised in '26 With roadside signs on top of sticks. ...Burma Shave!Burma Shave was revolutionary -- a ...

of yet another competition. In 1958, shaving-cream manufacturer Burma-Shave announced in its signature rhyming style: Wrote Tom: “I wonder why they chose the number 900 instead of the nice round ...

A popular 1950s advertising gimmick by Burma-Shave has helped inspire the former Saginaw County planning director to plant the signs around Buena Vista Township. "I always enjoyed the Burma-Shave ...

Allan G. Odell, who developed the roadside advertising campaign of rhyming jingles for Burma Shave that became a fixture of rural America for almost 40 years, died Monday at his home in Edina, Minn.

In the fall of 1925, a series of six signs advertising Burma-Shave, a new brushless shaving cream, appeared for the first time along highway 65 from Minneapolis to Albert Lea and on highway 61 to ...

It captured my attention in much the same manner as the real Burma Shave roadside signs once caught motorists' eyes on a long drive. I don't know if the four-line poems listed in the e-mail ever were ...

A set of six red and white signs alongside the road displayed a catchy, humorous rhyme that always ended with the words — Burma-Shave. Novelty advertising campaigns can be short-lived as the ...

Opponents of razing the E. Lake Street home of the Minneapolis company that made Burma Shave shaving products and their renowned roadside-jingle signs sought to win public support at Sunday's Open ...