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To: twister881

(((B-U-R-M-A S-H-A-V-E)))

I remember those signs along the roads back in the very late 40s and 50s.

Aww, those were the days!


30 posted on 12/21/2020 7:43:54 AM PST by airdalechief
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To: airdalechief

Yes! A total of 600 different jingles deployed from 1927 to 1963. Get “The Verse By the Side Of the Road” by Frank Rowsome, Jr., available on Amazon.

From 1938:

NO LADY LIKES
TO DANCE
OR DINE
ACCOMPANIED BY
A PORCUPINE
BURMA-SHAVE


33 posted on 12/21/2020 7:56:41 AM PST by twister881
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