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 ...

Today, the aging barns enjoy a cult following of nostalgic “barnstormers” who travel the country cataloguing these fading relics of an earlier time. One of these devoted fans of the Mail Pouch barns ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Ramshackle barns exhorting passers-by to “treat [themselves] to the best” have become a familiar element of road-trip vernacular. Those wandering down Indiana’s scenic routes, or browsing around the ...