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  [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             |
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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.
 
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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)
 
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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