Roadside Advertising

[Keitha]

I had to read this verse a couple times to get the pun: Angels who guard you/when you drive/usually retire/at sixty-five. The sixty-five refers to speed - which was quite fast back in the 30's. I really like the quasi-half and half design with photo-realistic paper on one side. I'll be doing that trick again.

[pamcook]

I thought it was an enlarged photo! Such a great page!

[Keitha]

I thought it was an enlarged photo! Such a great page!

It probably is an enlarged photo - just not mine! Actually, the paper (2006) is from Sandylion - Radiator Springs from Cars This is why I don't purge often.

[Laurie]

I thought it was an enlarged photo! Such a great page!

I thought so too! What a great page!

[BekiWard@msn.com]

I love this page, Keitha!

[EDelValle]

Love the page.
I remember reading the Burma Shave
roadside signs whenever my mother
decided that we were going on a road trip.
Some of them were really funny

[mpizzazz]

Love the page.
I remember reading the Burma Shave
roadside signs whenever my mother
decided that we were going on a road trip.
Some of them were really funny

I immediately thought of the Burma Shave signs when I saw these photos. Guess we are dating ourselves, Elizabeth!

Love all the little details you do like the map rosette, Keitha!

[katymjo]

I remember seeing some of these signs when we travelled along a stretch of Route 66 We really liked this one
Thirty days / Hath September. / April, June./ And the speed offender!

[kacarr61]

I have Burma signs along Route 66 to scrap and am so going to copy this!!!!

[jmp1022]

Love the page and pun is cute

[Keitha]

Thanks ladies. I'm too young to remember the original Burma-Shave signs My research suggests there were thousands erected over the years; I read where farmers would touch them up with paint when needed, etc. You can find many of the verses through a Google search, some of them were really clever. Kathy, here's the sketch I started with (turned sideways) in case you're interested, but other than the photo placement I pretty much did my own thing.