Mail Pouch Tobacco barns still pitch a bygone product on country rounds around West Virginia. They helped make artist and WWII veteran Harley Warrick famous late in life.
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 rural United States as it was well into the 20th century. Americans were tied to the land, not addicted to their cell phones. They smoked cigarettes, not marijuana.
He died in 2000, but not before his status as the last man to paint Mail Pouch Tobacco signs gained him some local and national notoriety, including a segment for 'On the Road' with journalist Charles Kuralt. 'He became an overnight sensation,' said the son. 'It took him 50 years to get there.' For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.
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