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 ...

MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP - There's something about a Mail Pouch Tobacco ... barns also can be found in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. "I like the restoration projects," he said. "It's interesting art.

Warrick would paint his initials on the barns. One of those was the barn across the road from Stumbaugh’s house. Just as chewing tobacco is an acquired taste, recognition of Mail Pouch barns is ...

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 barns have been demolished, or their paint ...

For those who favor winding country roads over interstates, the sign is a familiar one: “CHEW MAIL POUCH TOBACCO: TREAT YOURSELF TO THE BEST.” The message, painted on old wooden barns in bold ...

Barn Painting Harley Warrick was known for painting Mail Pouch ads on thousands of barns in Appalachia and the Midwest from the mid-1940's until 1992. He died last month at the age of 76.

Chewing tobacco ... who have Mail Pouch barns on their property choose to maintain them, while other long-gone signs return as ghost images when a barn’s more recent paint jobs give way to ...

Scott Hagan, contracted through Community Connection, began painting ... barns. It came from Greg Puckett’s love of the Mail Pouch barn tradition common to West Virginia and his work with ...

Aaron and Samuel Bloch, founders of Mail Pouch Tobacco, decided that advertising ... In exchange for the use of his barn, the farmer would receive a free paint job on the exposed side, minor ...

Kentucky officials got the idea from West Virginia, home of the former Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company, which was famous for paying farmers to paint their barns to advertise their "Mail Pouch" chewing ...

THE STORY: From the 1920s to the 1970s, teams of painters painted as many as 20,000 Mail Pouch chewing tobacco advertisements ... many of the barns have been demolished, or their paint chipped ...

Chewing tobacco ... who have Mail Pouch barns on their property choose to maintain them, while other long-gone signs return as ghost images when a barn’s more recent paint jobs give way to ...