Are you older than dirt?

[ridingcrops]

So does anyone remeber Sky King, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and the Cisco Kid on Saturday mornings? Or theold WWII propaganda cartoons that would be so not PC today? Everything from Popeye to the Threee Stooges kicking tail agaionst the Japanese and Hitler. Captain Kangaroo with Mr Green Jeans and Mr Moose? Excuse me I have to get my cane.

[The DUKE]

If remembering all that means I'm older than dirt, guilty as charged..

[carrvy1]

77 and holding looks like the dirt is about ready to cover me up. I still mow my own lawn and watch TV while walking on my treadmill.

[David R 1968]

For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson
In our history of the 1930's and '40's. Before there were interstates, when everyone drove the old 2 lane roads,
Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields.They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs,
About 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet.......and the obligatory 5th sign advertising
Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.

Here are more of the actual signs:

DON'T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR.
BURMA SHAVE

TRAINS DON'T WANDER
ALL OVER THE MAP
'CAUSE NOBODY SITS
IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP
Burma Shave

SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE
Burma Shave

DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave

DROVE TOO LONG
DRIVER SNOOZING
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
IS NOT AMUSING
Burma Shave

BROTHER SPEEDER
LET'S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING, NURSE
Burma Shave

CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
AND A LITTLE MORE STEER
Burma Shave

SPEED WAS HIGH
WEATHER WAS NOT
TIRES WERE THIN
X MARKS THE SPOT
Burma Shave

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A WARMER
HEMISPHERE
Burma Shave

AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT
BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN'T IT?
Burma Shave

NO MATTER THE PRICE
NO MATTER HOW NEW
THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
IN THE CAR IS YOU
Burma Shave

A GUY WHO DRIVES
A CAR WIDE OPEN
IS NOT THINKIN'
HE'S JUST HOPIN'
Burma Shave

AT INTERSECTIONS
LOOK EACH WAY
A HARP SOUNDS NICE
BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY
Burma Shave

BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER'S CODE
Burma Shave

THE ONE WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING
DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING
Burma Shave

CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE.
Burma Shave

PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW
Burma Shave


Do these bring back any old memories?
If not, you're merely a child.

[bailesrj]

Don't know who started this but thanks for the memories I think that had something to do with bob hope did anyone else chew the road tar

[bailesrj]

Don't know who started this but, thanks for the memories, I think that had something to do with bob hope. did anyone else chew the road tar. Just turned 71 but am starting to remember everything like it was tomorrow.

[m14ed]

Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields.They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs,
About 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet.......and the obligatory 5th sign advertising
Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.




Do these bring back any old memories?
If not, you're merely a child.

You can't have driven

Very far

IF you can't remember

Who's Signs

These Are

Burma Shave

[Old Marine]

Remember reading many Burma Shave signs. We did not have TV in vehicles back then. Nor did we have air conditioning. But we had wind wings.

[carrvy1]

I remember when I turned 25 and everyone told me I was over the hill but I don't remember anyone telling me that 2 years ago when I turned 75.LOL.

I remember when beer was worth ten cents at the slop chute and cigarettes were 1 dollar a carton.

[Old Marine]

I remember when I turned 25 and everyone told me I was over the hill but I don't remember anyone telling me that 2 years ago when I turned 75.LOL.

I remember when beer was worth ten cents at the slop chute and cigarettes were 1 dollar a carton.

Those were some great days for sure. Remember them well.

[William Hardy]

I remember when I turned 25 and everyone told me I was over the hill but I don't remember anyone telling me that 2 years ago when I turned 75.LOL.

I remember when beer was worth ten cents at the slop chute and cigarettes were 1 dollar a carton.

In Nam, cigarettes were $1.10 a carton...no taxes. Since there were no pennies, a single pack was 15 cents. State side they were around $2.00 a carton and 25 cents a pack in the club.

Back in the mid 70s on Oki, a bottle of good bourbon cost $2.40 a quart...no taxes of any kind. My buddy would buy a case of coke for $2.40 and it lasted us from payday to payday. What's the cost of a single drink today?

[carrvy1]

In Nam, cigarettes were $1.10 a carton...no taxes. Since there were no pennies, a single pack was 15 cents. State side they were around $2.00 a carton and 25 cents a pack in the club.

Back in the mid 70s on Oki, a bottle of good bourbon cost $2.40 a quart...no taxes of any kind. My buddy would buy a case of coke for $2.40 and it lasted us from payday to payday. What's the cost of a single drink today?

I paid $3.80 at Chili's the other day for a Coors light. In Camp Pendleton between paydays the word was Thunder Bird wine, what was nice the price .59 cents.

In Japan a one night shack up could be bartered with the Mama son and Jo son was yours any where from 3 to five bucks.

[Old Marine]

Used to pay $.50 for a gallon of Dago Red.

[old school]

remember that big reddish pink rubber looking thing hanging over the shower rail with a long tube running out of it?? that thing scared the hell out of me in the late 50's hehehehehehehe until i got to know what its function was hehehehehehehehe

[Old Marine]

remember that big reddish pink rubber looking thing hanging over the shower rail with a long tube running out of it?? that thing scared the hell out of me in the late 50's hehehehehehehe until i got to know what its function was hehehehehehehehe

Used to use the hose off that red thing for a home brew siphon hose.