verse by the side of the road frank rowsome

The signs often masqueraded as public safety messages warning drivers not to drink or get distracted behind the wheel, but just as often were simple product pitches. Author Rowsome tells the complete story of the innovative roadside advertising campaign along with the text of all 600 of the rhymes.īack in the first half of the 20th Century, as America was falling hopelessly in love with the motorcar, a Midwestern shaving-soap company initiated a successful and ground-breaking advertising campaign using small roadside signs. The Verse by the Side of the Road, by Frank Rowsome, Jr.Ī history of the Burma Shave sign. This book will help me to make more of them. Self-taught son of a self-taught wood turner describes ingenious ways of doing things differently from everyone else. The Frugal Woodturner: Make and Modify all the Tools and Equipment You Need, by Ernie Conover No Less than Victory, by Jeff ShaaraĪ workmanlike telling of the story of the Battle of the Bulge. This is not elegant writing, but it is very real. You see more clearly his religious devotion and his love of family, and his still-seething rage at some of the injustices he witnessed. This is Dick Winter’s memoir, wherein he finally puts his own voice into the larger-than-life story of this most famous Airborne infantryman. We all like to think of ourselves as this rare man, and not as the many anti-heroes produced by combat. Winters’ calm, quiet bravery is the archetype of the American GI. Dick Winters was the central character in Steven Spielberg’s and Tom Hanks’ mini-series, Band of Brothers, based on the bestselling book of the same title by Stephen Ambrose.

Verse by the side of the road frank rowsome