Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco Barns

Many of the barns were repainted every few years to maintain the sharp colors of the lettering.
Chew mail pouch tobacco barns. Mail pouch painted their message on one or two sides of the barn depending on viewability from the roadway and painted the other sides of the barn any color the owner wished. This is the blue version. These eye catching pseudo billboards were painted initially by six men hired to travel the country and paint as many signs as possible. Mail pouch stopped its barn ads in 1992 but many barns remain.
The company would paint your barn or wall in exchange for letting them put the advertisement on it. We found several arrowheads here. Chew mail pouch tobacco treat yourself to the best sometimes they are surrounded on the left and right by a thin vertical blue border. Lots of these in west virginia.
Treat yourself to the best. In 1998 the tobacco master settlement agreement was passed banning outdoor and billboard ads in 46 states including new york. It usually read centered on the barn side in varying font sizes. We used to live in front of this barn.
The background of the design featured a black or red solid color and the lettering used a bold white or yellow color with black shadowing for the mail pouch tobacco section. The barn walls are typically hand painted with a black or red background and white or yellow capital lettering reading chew. Chew mail pouch tobacco. Over 20 000 mail pouch tobacco signs adorn barns in 22 states across the us.
The barns usually hand painted in black or red with yellow or white capital lettering read as follows. Treat yourself to the best these mail pouch barns are a quaint slice of the american past blending rural 19th century barns with slick 20th century advertising. The painting crews expanded a bit following world war ii. Mail pouch tobacco barn cabell county west virginia 2 by harry hunt.
West virginia history i love old barns mail pouch tobacco barn cabell county west virginia 1 located on kilgore creek road just off of us 60 near milton. For more than 100 years from 1890 to 1992 more than 20 000 barns in 39 states most in the ohio valley were functional billboards for mail pouch tobacco.