Tamil Nadu

Billboard Ads In Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (Tamil pronunciation: [t̪amiɻ n̪aːᶑu] ( listen); TamiḻNāṭu; Tamil: தமிழ்நாடு; literally ‘The Land of Tamils’ or ‘Tamil Country’) is one of the 29 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai (formerly known as Madras). Tamil Nadu^[9] lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Puducherry and the South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the north, by the Nilgiri, the Anamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait on the southeast, and by the Indian Ocean on the south. The state shares a maritime border with the nation of Sri Lanka.

An interesting use of billboards unique to highways was the Burma-Shave advertisements between 1925 and 1963, which had 4- or 5-part messages on multiple signs, keeping the reader hooked by the promise of a punchline at the end. This example is in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution:

Shaving brushes

You’ll soon see ’em

On a Shelvin

some museum

Burma-Shave