Mail Pouch Tobacco barns still pitch nostalgia on country roads in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other nearby states. They offer both beautiful American folk art and a haunting reminder of a ...

MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP - There's something about a Mail Pouch Tobacco sign on an old barn. "When you're driving down the road and you see one of these, you have to slow down and take a look," Ken Cunningham ...

WHEN: This photo was taken the afternoon of Feb. 20. THE STORY: From the 1920s to the 1970s, teams of painters painted as many as 20,000 Mail Pouch chewing tobacco advertisements on barns along rural ...

Barns painted with ads for Mail Pouch Tobacco used to be a common sight in rural areas across the country. Now only a handful are left in California. The sign on this one was barely visible until ...

The Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn on Highway 1 at the base of Bishop Peak carried a chewing tobacco advertisement on the roof for many years. It was a popular subject for artists but when the roof ...

“CHEW MAIL POUCH TOBACCO,” the words on the barn encourage, before adding “Treat Yourself to the Best.” The iconic barn is located within view from U.S. Route 30 near Dalton, sitting beside smaller ...

Aaron and Samuel Bloch, founders of Mail Pouch Tobacco, decided that advertising on the side of a windowless, highly visible barn was a fabulous way to get their message across. However, it was the ...

One of the lost Americana landmarks of San Luis Obispo is the Mail Pouch Barn. The story includes a long-time farming family, a recently controversial construction company owner and an advertising ...