Brian should continue to be making Charcoal razors into next year, no rush to get a new one.#38 still in, but I really need to stay out of that Charcoal Goods thread....lol
Nice shave this morning with my Windsor, PAA Atomic Age Bay Rum Soap and AS, Lord Platinum blade, and PAA Amber brush. Hard to believe 2 weeks have gone by already. I have the feeling it's going to get harder and harder as time goes by. Lots of shiny things out there to catch my attention....
Hi@KQY61 that thread is actually two sabbaticals. The "short" is from one Feb 29 to the next one in 2024. The longer one is for the decade of 202x. It is a lower traffic thread but still kind of fun. I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I can probably do a couple of the decade sabbaticals without resupplying...
My in-laws gave me a NOS Burma-Shave mug (still in the box with the soap) and a newspaper clipping about the history of the jingles for Christmas. It was a nice surprise--I already had a Burma Shave mug but didn't know about how they used to advertise.Hi,
There is another Restraint Thread some folks might like following. It runs for an entire decade. There are only a few in it. So, the chatter is fairly low.
To help pass the time, I have been posting a couple times a week with the old Burma Shave roadside jingles.
BTW, this was another one of my half-baked ideas for a restraint theme: The Year Of Burma-Shave. But, the only way to get it these days is buying NOS off of eBay. So, it was an idea I discarded like I did the Soylent Green idea!
For those who don't know, Burma-Shave was a brushless shaving cream from way back. 1927. Or, at least, the advertising signs dated back to 1927 and ended in 1964 or so. Not long after the signs were gone, so was the shaving cream. Most of the signs were about shaving without a brush and, of course, using their product.
The way it worked, is they paid some landowner to put these signs up just off the road right of way. They used straight stretches of two lane roads. There were variations on the theme, but mostly they were white text, in all caps, on a red background. Signs 18" high and 40" wide in a series spaced far enough apart to let each line sink in before the next one could be read. There were six signs in a series generally with five with the jingle and the last always saying Burma-Shave.
The company published the jingles yearly and gave little booklet with them away. Long ago, someone coalesced these into a file and I wrote a little program to pop one up at random on the computer screen when turned on. I found the old data file and have been posting them a couple times a week for the past couple years over in that 10-year restraint thread.
I've not used All Caps as I didn't want it to look like shouting. Rather, I just capitalize the first letter of each word. And, skip a line between each line of text. The old program would pop a line up every two seconds, but I can't do that here. So, each y'all have to cadence the jingle your own self.
Here's a sample:
Shaving Brushes
You'll Soon See 'Em
Way Down South
In Some
Museum
Burma-Shave
That's a sample of most of them. But, since these were roadside, some were driving safety related. Those are my favorites.
Heed This Message
If You'd Be Spared
Trains Don't Whistle
Because
They're Scared
Burma-Shave
That one sits along the driveway to the railroad museum in Chattanooga, TN. Or, it did some years ago now the last time I was there.
So, to help pass the time during this year, here's where I post these gems:
Page 9 is where I began posting the jingles. The thread is up to Page 40 now. And, the jingles are into 1947, when they began putting up new signs after WWII.
Stan
So you are saying there may be re-runs?
