Mom's personal passion was Burma Shave signs--a great old American tradition. Roadside attractions lured family McCann has an uncanny knack for remembering gorgeous details, especially when it comes to pop cultural artifacts and lost brand names like Tru-Ade, Brylcreem, and Burma Shave, which sh...
Then one day, Alan Odell came up with a suggestion. He suggested roadside signs like the ones he had seen on road trips when he was out trying to sell Burma-Shave. However, his father would not hear of such an idea, and was sure that the boy was just homesick because of all the ...
Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small, sequential highway billboard signs. Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell. The company's original product ...
BURMA-SHAVE RETURNS TO THE ROADSIDE POETRY BUSINESSJEFFREY PAGE
The Signs & Rhymes of Burma-Shave(1991) 纪录 家庭 历史 剧情:This documentary recounts, through numerous personal recollections, the history of one of the most unusual and beloved advertising campaigns--the roadside rhyming signs promoting Burma-Shave brush less shaving cream. Written by yortsnave...
Then one day, Alan Odell came up with a suggestion. He suggested roadside signs like the ones he had seen on road trips when he was out trying to sell Burma-Shave. However, his father would not hear of such an idea, and was sure that the boy was just homesick because of all the ...
Burma-Shave Discusses the history of the signs advertising Burma-Shave product. R Thompson - 《Highlights》 被引量: 0发表: 2002年 THOSE BURMA-SHAVE JINGLES, AMERICA'S ROADSIDE REIGN OF RHYME. No abstract provided. E Bierbauer - 《California Highway Patrolman》 被引量: 0发表: 1995年 The ...
The article comments on the correlation between the death of Allan Odell, the creator of the roadside Burma-Shave signs and the demise of Clarion Co. Ltd., a line of cosmetics from Procter and Gamble Co. According to the author, the two events demonstrate the difference that an effective ...
Dixie Before Disney 100 Years of Roadside Fun (review) Reading Burma-Shave signs, and arguing about where the exact middle of die back seat was. Anyone whose idea of summer vacation has been shaped by air-conditioned travel on limited-access, limited-advertising interstate highways with no......