Box: Times changed and so did shaving methods and the company found itself in financial difficulty. Early in 1963 the company was sold to Phillip Morris, Inc. Are the Burma-Shave signs all gone?
Combination: In 1925, Al Odell, in an effort to save his father’s failing shaving cream business, bought a bunch of second-hand signs, stenciled advertising slogans on them and pounded them into the ground on stakes.