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 ...

Some painted barn sides are faded and demolished. Others still stand with the iconic “Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco” signs. The advertisements for West Virginia Mail Pouch tobacco exist in Ohio ...

Aaron and Samuel Bloch, founders of Mail Pouch Tobacco, decided that advertising on the side of a windowless, highly visible barn was a fabulous ... beloved icons in the Ohio Valley and ...

Even though his father chewed Mail Pouch tobacco for 75 ... of the great Mail Pouch barn painters. He died in late 2000. Passion for chaw barns Warrick, a southeastern Ohio native, spent 55 ...

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 U.S. highways. Through the years, many of the ...

“CHEW MAIL POUCH TOBACCO ... The iconic barn is located within view from U.S. Route 30 near Dalton, sitting beside smaller utility barns on display at Ohio Outdoor Structures.

Scott Hagan paints Commodore Abraham Whipple on a barn ... of Ohio, is old. Its gray wood panels are wide and full of holes. The left side was once painted with an ancient “mail pouch tobacco ...

Ohio, native to retire. Mail Pouch was bought and sold several times. Swisher International Inc., the Jacksonville, Fla., tobacco giant, owns the company. Swisher canceled its barn-sign contracts ...

Chewing tobacco was especially ... was the work of Harley Warrick, an Ohio native who painted around twenty thousand barns in twenty states for the Mail Pouch firm, never utilizing stencils ...

OAKLAND — The Mail ... in Ohio. This historical society researches and documents the history of outdoor advertising, especially barns and buildings bearing the Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco logo.

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 ...

Chewing tobacco was especially ... was the work of Harley Warrick, an Ohio native who painted around twenty thousand barns in twenty states for the Mail Pouch firm, never utilizing stencils ...