----------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] | "And what is the use of a book," MA Program in Public History | thought Alice, Indiana University at | "without pictures or conversations?" Indianapolis | ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This brings up a question I have always wondered about. Where are all the old B urma-Shave signs? Did anyone save some? Compile Some? Anthologize Some? I'd pa id cash money for a book/Museum visit to read them all. -------------------------- Reply----------------------------------- The IU library system lists two possibilities: "The Signs and Rhymes of Burma Shave," a 1991 video from Sentimental Production in Cincinnati _The Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of Burma Shave Signs and Jingles by Frank Rowsome (New York: Pelham Books, 1990) ******************************************************* In a similar vein (well perhaps not), another grad student in my Historic Preservation class was researching what is apparently the oldest surviving White Castle restaurant building (a hamburger/fast food chain that was headquartered in Indianapolis) for a National Register nomination class exercise, and the realty company that owns the building now wants her to submit a real nomination for them so they can be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ann Pamela Cunningham* is spinning in her grave! *APC founded the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in the 1850s, the first national historic preservatio organization on the U.S., to save George Washington's home as a shrine to liberty or some such .... Carolyn Brady