BURMA SHAVE SIGNS

collected by Dorothy Pocock and Ben Oostdam, summer 1960

Baby your skin
Keep it fitter
Or Baby will get
Another sitter
At a quiz
Pa ain't no whiz:
But he knows how
To keep Ma his
People with whiskers
Beneath their noses
Ought kiss like
The Eskimoses
He lit a match to
Light gas tank:
That's why they call
Him skinless Frank
Drivers who drink
There's nothing worse –
They put the quart
Before the hearse!
If daisies are
Your favorite flowers
Just keep pushin up
More miles per hour.
Use this cream
A day or 2
Then don't call her –
She'll call you!
Many a forest
Used to stand
Where a lighted match
Got out of hand.
The draftee tried this cream
And punned:
Then what d'y'a know
He'd been defuned
Passing cars when
You can't see
May give you a glimpse
Of Eternity.
Said farmer John:
Who's bald on top?
Wish I could rotate
The crop!
This cooling shave
Will never fail
To stamp its owner
First class male.
The one
who'se been drinking
Depends on you
To do his thinking
Never pass
On a slope
Unless you have
A periscope


Burma-Shave signs for 1930
Burma-Shave sign for 1938
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Burma-Shave "Puns of the Past"
Burma Shave Ads of the 1950's
Burma-Shave In The Fifties
Burma-Shave Slogans of the 50's

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