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 ...

If you were born in the 1940s or earlier as I was, you likely remember the Burma-Shave road signs. Before the Thruway we always took Route 9W to Albany. Just north of the Hamlet of Hannacroix on the ...

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 ...

Reader Bob Flanigan sent in some Burma Shave signs. Remember them? Bob says, “For those who never saw the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930s and ’40s. Before the ...