Mail Pouch Barns located within Greene County:
Our thanks and compliments to those who have donated Mail Pouch Barn
pictures,
such as a local photographer Jerry Hardy, and a Mail Pouch Barn
admirer Keith Pride (with wvpics.com).
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Rogersville, PA
Jct Hwy 18 & 21 West
Right side of road. |
Khedive, PA
Rt 21 east of I-79 by 7.3 miles.
Left side of road.
ID No. MPB 38-30-01 |
Kirby, PA
South of town on Hwy 19 |
Mt. Morris, PA
Rt. 19 South of Kirby
Left side of road look back to see it.
View is covered with vegetation. |
Kirby, PA
Hwy 19 South and North Branch Road intersect
Southern edge of Kirby
Right side of road past brick house. |
(Photo not available)
New Freeport, PA
2 miles north on Hwy 18
Right side, covered by vegetation. |
Holbrook, PA
1 mile north east on Hwy 18
(left side) |
Waynesburg, PA
6 Miles east on Hwy 21
(Hwy. 21 & Hwy. 18 -
Near Waynesburg)
initialed by Harley Warrick '89
Mark Turley in '91 |
Waynesburg, PA
6 miles south on Hwy 19 (right hand side-both
sides painted and initialed by Harley '89 and Mark Turley in '91)
ID No: MPB 38-30-04 |
Waynesburg, PA
2 miles south east on Hwy 19 from 21 and 19 south intersect
toward Kirby (on left side of road-both ends painted) |
Waynesburg, PA
Rt 19 North of Waynesburg 2 miles
ID No. 38-30-13 |
Wind Ridge, PA
5 miles west of Waynesburg on Hwy 21
ID No. 38-30-12 |
"The Passing of a Legend"
Harley Warrick, The Mail Pouch Sign Painter
By Nancy Nussbaum, Associated Press (Source: www.thebarnjournal.org)
Belmont,
OH - Harley Warrick, 76, who was among a dozen sign painters who
advertised the joys of chewing tobacco on the side of thousands of
Appalachian and Midwestern barns, died November 24 in Wheeling, West
Virginia.
Mr. Warrick and other barn
painters traveled America’s heartland for months at a time to cover
barns with black, white and yellow signs reading “CHEW MAIL POUCH
TOBACCO. TREAT YOURSELF TO THE BEST.” Warrick spent 55 years painting
or retouching more than 20,000 barns. “The first 1000 were a little
rough, and after that you got the hang of it” he said in a 1997
interview.
In
1946, when Warrick was 21 and returned just two days from the Army, a
Mail Pouch team painted each end of his family’s dairy barn. “I was
just talking away with them and they said we need somebody on one of
our crews and I thought, that’s better than milking 27 Jerseys every
night and morning.”
Harley
painted by eye, starting at the center with the “E” in “CHEW.” At first
he painted six days a week and prepared paint in 5-gallon kegs on
Sundays. Wages were $32 weekly. With a helper filling in the black
background, Harley did a new sign in six hours - sometimes two a day.
Warrick could repaint up to six barns in a day. He worked in 13 states
from Michigan to Missouri to New York, and painted about 4000 barns but
they needed retouching every 4-5 years. Another contractor was
responsible for barns in California, Oregon and Washington State.
Mail
Pouch discontinued sign painting in 1969, in part due to the Federal
Highway Beautification Act that prohibited outdoor advertising within
660’ of a federally funded highway. Existing signs weren’t affected but
further restrictions and costs doomed the program. Later, Mail Pouch
signs were designated National Landmarks which allowed Warwick to
continue painting despite restrictions on tobacco advertising.
Mr.
Warrick retired in 1993 but continued to paint barns, repainting his
last in October at Barkcamp State Park in his hometown of Belmont.
Warrick originally painted the 150-year old barn in the early 1980s.
Daughter
Lena Williams, Cincinnati said, “He would always say if you could find
a job that you would do without being paid, that’s what you should do.
I don’t think he really thought about it as work. It was just what he
did.” She is writing a book on her father and Mail Pouch signs.
Editor's Note: Please see Chasing Mail Pouch Barns by Eddie Roberts in the Barn
Stories section. See also various links under Barn
Resources, particularly www.reiterwatercolor.com, for additional Mail Pouch
information and Mail Pouch prints suitable for framing.
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Greene County Mail Pouch Barn Facts listed below:
ID No: MPB 38-30-01
Barn Photo 1, Photo 1, & Photo 1
Location: Rt 21 east of I-79 by 7.3 miles.
Lat: N39 52.66/Long: W80 01.09
Map
Notes: 1 side
Bottom photo of initials by Lonnie Schnauffer.
ID No: MPB 38-30-02
Barn Photo 1 & Barn Photo 2
Location: Rt 21 east of I-79 by 3.4 miles.
(Barn has fallen)
Lat: N39 53.14/Long: W80 05.07
Map
Notes: 1 end
Barn had completely fallen down as of October 2001.
ID No: MPB 38-30-03
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 19 south of Rt 21 intersection by 1 mile.
Lat: N39 53.12/Long: W80 09.69
Map
Notes: 1 end and 1 side
ID No: MPB 38-30-04
Photo 1, Photo 2, & Photo 3,
Location: Rt 19 south of Rt 21 intersection by 6 miles.
Lat: N39 49.87/Long: W80 07.43
Map
Notes: 2 ends
Photos 1 & 2 compliments of Bill Plack (2005)
ID No: MPB 38-30-05
Barn Photo 1 & Photo 2
Location: Rt 19 south of Rt 21 intersection by 11 miles.
Lat: N39 48.07/Long: W80 06.95
Map
Notes: 2 ends
Photo #2 compliments of Jim Langston. Jim has a CD of photos he has taken available.
ID No: MPB 38-30-06
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 19 south of Rt 21 intersection by 8 miles.
Lat: N39 45.58/Long: W80 04.99
Map
Notes: 1 side
ID No: MPB 38-30-07
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 18 south of Rt 21 by 10 miles.
Lat: N39 46.60/Long: W80 24.14
Map
Notes: 1 side, and the barn is built over a small creek.
ID No: MPB 38-30-08
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 18 south of Rt 21 by 1.5 miles.
Lat: N39 51.82/Long: W80 17.91
Map
Notes: 2 sides
ID No: MPB 38-30-09
Location: Rt 21 north of Rt 18 by .1 mile.
Lat: N39 52.63/Long: W80 16.99
Map
Notes: 1 end
Photo #2 by Rick Campbell.
ID No: MPB 38-30-10
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 88 south of Rt 21 by 2 miles.
Lat: N39 50.10/Long: W79 57.93
Map
Notes: 1 end
ID No: MPB 38-30-11
Barn Photo
Location: On Betty Lane in Carmichaels PA
Latitude/Longitude: n/a
Notes: 1 end
Photo by Lonnie Schnauffer
ID No: MPB 38-30-12
Barn Photo 1, Photo 2 & Photo 3
Location: Rt 21 near Windridge
Latitude/Longitude: n/a
Notes: 2 ends and 1 side
Photo 1 by Rick Campbell
Photos 2 & 3 by Bill Plack (1986)
ID No: MPB 38-30-13
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 19 North of Waynesburg by about 2 miles.
Lat: N39 55.66/Long: W80 11.94
Map
Notes: Soft Drink Barn SDB 38-30 in background.
Photo by Elmer Napier
ID No: MPB 38-30-14
Barn Photo
Location: Rt 19 south of Waynesburg.
Latitude/Longitude: n/a
Notes: Photo by Elmer Napier
ID No: MPB 38-30-15
Barn Photo 1 & Barn Photo 2
Location: Rt. 19 north of Waynesburg
Latitude/Longitude: n/a
Notes: 2 ends
Photo 1 by Elmer Napier
Photo 2 by Bill Plack (1990)
ID No: MPB 38-30-16
Barn Photo
Location:
Rte 21, at SR4009, west end of Graysville
Latitude/Longitude: n/a
(Barn is gone)
Notes: 1 end
Photo by Bill Plack (1986)
ID No: MPB 38-30-17
Barn Photo
Location:
Rte 21, between Rutan and Graysville.
(Painted over)
Latitude/Longitude: n/a
Notes: 1 end, Barn is still there but sign has been painted over.
Photo by Bill Plack (1986)
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