Burma Shave with the Statler Brothers OT

[Jim Yergin]

You may need to watch it twice; once to watch the Burma shave signs change and once to catch all the pictures plus listening to the music of the Statler Brothers. For those of you too young to remember "too bad you missed it!"

http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm

Jim Yergin

[PatS....]

We didn't get the Burma-Shave signs here and I'm a bit young for some of those things but not all

Always liked the Statlers, though...one of the best groups ever...sorely missed as well.

Thanks, Jim, I enjoyed that!

[Plymouthy Adams]

Harold Lou Don and Phil...'do you remember these'...great group..excellent intertainment..and as a kid I do recall seeing a couple sets of the Burma-shave signs...dad made a point to be sure all 4 kids in the car had a chance to read all the signs...

[greg g]

Counting flowers on the wall......Somewhere I have a book of all the official Burma Shave signs. I will see if I can find it and bring it along this weekend.

[Dennis Hemingway]

The Statler Brothers are/were a great group to listen to while driving.

There is someone who is putting up Burma-shave type signs along Old Route 66 between Victorville & Barstow.

Dennis:cool:

[Plymouthy Adams]

somehow Norm I picture you with a tube of that stuff...

You wonder where the yellow went..................when?

[anthonyb]

Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! I Know! I Know!

Even used a bit of it as a young'un even though I'm not as chronologically experienced as some here.

[greg g]

Hey Tim, set the way back machine for the late 50's. Comic Strip Detective Fearless Fosdick was a drummer for what other hair tonic brand??????

[Plymouthy Adams]

with all due respect Greg..that stuff stank..(10 degrees beyond stink) Wildroot

[greg g]

yea I was a vitalis man myself.

[greg g]

He saw the train

He tried to duck it

He kicked the gas

And then the Bucket.

Burma-Shave

and apparently tailgating has been with us a while:

Is he lonesome

Or is he blind?

The guy who drives

So close behind

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And DWI

Drinking Drivers

Nothing Worse

They put the Quart

Before the Hearse

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and life philosphy;

Within this vale

Of toil and sin

Your head grows bald

But not your chin

Burma Shave

[Niel Hoback]

There is a small book around here somewhere in my stuff called "The Verse by the Side of the Road". It has all the signs arranged by the year they were used. Some are quite funny. I remember them along the side of Indiana 130 between Wheeler and Valparaiso. We wondered what happened to them all, figuring people just walked off with them, but the book says the Burma-Vita company went around and collected them all. Gotta find that book.

[50PlymouthSled]

I'm a Royal Crown and Murrays kinda guy personally. For what it's worth. Hah.

[greg g]

Neil that book is what I picked the above ditties from. It was my Dad's, a birthday present from his sister's Husband in 69. My dad was and avid sign reader Burma Shave and others. Remember when every town you passed through had at least one or two shops with large lighted advirtising clocks in their windows.

[TodFitch]

I too have the "Verse by the Side of the Road" book. Among my favorites:

Twinkle, Twinkle

One eyed car

We all wonder

Where you are

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At crossroads

Dont trust to Luck

The other car

May be a truck

Burma-Shave

Don't lose your head

To gain a minute

You need your head

Your brains are in it

Burma-Shave