
Sonoma County does it again...Have you noticed the red signs strung beside the road following the Russian River from Santa Rosa out towards Guerneville? You can head down the road both directions from the Farmhouse Inn in either direction to run into them. Remember the old Burma Shave signs...well maybe not if you are a youngun' but I remember hearing about them in a marketing class in college. You could equate them to life sized "twitter" posts with a sense of humor. The signs were up along our earliest roads from the '20s until 1963 and were an early form of our modern billboards advertising a shaving cream. Here's an example in case you have no idea what I am talking about: