Lucky Number Three: Burma Cache Series Traditional Cache
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Lucky Number Three: Burma Cache Series
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Cache is cammo'd spice container.
This cache series is a tribute to the nostalgic Burma Shave signs.
The big blue tube's
Just like Louise
You get A thrill
From every squeeze.
Burma-Shave
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His cheek was rough
His chick vamoosed
And now she won't
Come home to roost
Burma Shave
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How Burma-Shave Saved the Family Farm
An ailing company and failing farms found success in mutual aid – and created an American icon. For many farmers during the dark days of the Great Depression, survival was a close shave indeed. No one will ever know how many farms were saved from foreclosure by Burma-Shave signs.
While crops wilted under the relentless sun and hordes of locusts devoured what was left, the sole income for thousands of farmers snared in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was from those six humorous signs by the side of the road on their property, wooden planks with black or white lettering on orange, blue or red backgrounds, advertising shaving cream.
But the benefits were at least a two-way street. Not only did the signs save farmers, but farmers also saved Burma-Vita Co. of Minneapolis. And the signs offered the American public much-needed doses of humor during those bleak days.
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