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The Burma-Shave Sign

NPR

Published January 20, 2002 at 7:00 PM HST

They turned the heads of American drivers for nearly four decades. In the latest segment of Present at the Creation, NPR explores the roots of the once-ubiquitous roadside Burma-Shave sign.

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