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08-31-2010, 05:58 PM | #1 |
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"Burma Shave" signs
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. |
08-31-2010, 07:45 PM | #2 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
Pictures please.....
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08-31-2010, 07:53 PM | #3 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
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.
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08-31-2010, 07:58 PM | #4 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
There is one in Armstrong Iowa, drive past it everyday, it changes every 3 months or so.
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08-31-2010, 08:05 PM | #5 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
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. |
08-31-2010, 08:13 PM | #6 |
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Dinah Didn't ........ |
08-31-2010, 08:14 PM | #7 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
Treat him right........
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08-31-2010, 08:15 PM | #8 |
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But if he'd shave
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08-31-2010, 08:15 PM | #9 |
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Dinah might.
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08-31-2010, 09:24 PM | #10 |
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She eyed his beard
and said no dice The wedding's I'll cook the rice Burma Shave |
09-02-2010, 10:06 AM | #11 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
30 day's has September
April June And the Speeding Offender Burma Shave |
09-02-2010, 10:07 AM | #12 |
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Within This Vail
Of Toil and Sin The Head Grows Bald But Not Your Chin Burma Shave |
09-02-2010, 10:10 AM | #13 |
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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 |
09-02-2010, 07:49 PM | #14 | |
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We also crossed over the old Erie canal. I wonder what that looks like now? |
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09-02-2010, 12:56 PM | #15 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
I think these are from the world's best roadside attraction -- House on the Rock.
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09-02-2010, 02:51 PM | #16 |
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Re: "Burma Shave" signs
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
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09-02-2010, 07:25 PM | #17 |
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The monkey took
one look at Jim and threw the peanuts back at him he needed Burma Shave |
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