Infinite Corridor
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The Infinite Corridor is a 251-meter hallway that runs through the main buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specifically parts of the buildings numbered 7, 3, 10, 4, and 8.
The Infinite Corridor is the main pedestrian thoroughfare at MIT (February 2006)
Empty Infinite Corridor during COVID-19 lockdown (March 2021)
Glass-enclosed historic displays
Unenclosed bulletin boards rapidly accumulate many posters
Burma-Shave
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Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.
Infinite Corridor
…Corridor guarantees a large audience, it is a setting for some "hacks" (practical jokes), especially those of a serial nature such as a series of "Burma Shave" style signs. The "Mass Toolpike" hack in 1985 involved placing traffic signals, lane markings, and highway-like signs along the length of the Infinite…
1940s Burma-Shave tube and box
Preserved set of U.S. Route 66 signs promoting Burma-Shave