Prompted perhaps by the news last week of Lakewood Township's crackdown on roadside signs, Gilbert's Joseph Legueri got to reminiscing about Burma-Shave, the brushless shaving cream introduced in 1923 ...

Does this bring back any memories? If it does, your age is showing (but probably not your whiskers). What well-known soap Could shave your chin And leave you with a hairless grin? It advertised in '26 ...

The Internet’s good is often plagued by its negatives. Perhaps, the best way to analyze present-day technology would be to say the problem is its use. Too many abusers who must have nothing to do. In ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Kim Poulton is too young to remember the original Burma-Shave signs. The head of marketing for the Florida Department of Transportation heard about them from her father, ...

Travel on U.S. highways between 1926 and 1963 revealed a common element guaranteed to create comments. A set of six red and white signs alongside the road displayed a catchy, humorous rhyme that ...

Approximately 1.3 billion billboards line Interstate 4 through Orlando, and that’s just counting advertisements for personal injury lawyers. “Dan Got Me $300,000!” At this point, I’d hire Dan Newlin ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early years of motoring, the ...

Old-time drivers will relate to this column, but if you’re younger than 65, you may not have ever seen the Burma-Shave slogans along the highways in the U.S. From Wikipedia, the Burma-Shave sign ...

“Who has to go now?” rasped Peter Mathews as he eased up on the gas. But this time he was wrong. As he slowed down, the youngsters chanted the legend on the ...

A Pan-American flight attendant adjusts the “space helmet” atop Arliss French's head for a trip that he won in 1958. (Pan-American Airways) (Pan-American Airways) Perspective by John Kelly A few weeks ...

"The junta's exports lose their sparkle." This dazzling headline appeared in the weekend FT, and it led the reader to an article about a "first ever." "Jewellers are leading a western corporate ...