February 24, 2011: Re-live the Wild West

There are twenty more June 1963 ads today, including two Wednesday, 6/5/63 ads in the Other Vintage ads gallery, one for a Wild West Show at Buck Lake Ranch, near Angola, Indiana and one for Frontier City near Onsted, Michigan. There are seven more ads for movies on The Big Show, Night Owl Theater and Hollywood Spectacular, in the Channel 11 gallery. The first is a Tuesday, 6/4/66 ad for "Sands of Iwo Jima," "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (Jane Russell) and "The Spirit of St. Louis" (James Stewart) followed by a Friday, 6/7/63 ad for "Halls of Montezuma" (Richard Widmark). Next is a Tuesday, 6/11/63 ad for "California," "Breakthrough" and "I Was a Communist for the F.B.I." (Frank Lovejoy) and a Saturday, 6/15/63 ad for "The Old Man and the Sea" (Spencer Tracy). There's a Thursday, 6/20/63 ad for "No Highway in the Sky" (James Stewart), a Friday, 6/21/63 ad for Attack!" and a Saturday, 6/22/63 ad for "Yellow Sky" (Gregory Peck). There are four more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery. There are three for CBS News Extra reports on President John F. Kennedy's 1963 European trip, a Tuesday, 6/25/63 ad (Frankfort), a Wednesday, 6/26/63 ad (Berlin) and a Thursday, 6/27/63 ad (Ireland). The last of today's WTOL-TV ads is a Wednesday, 6/26/63 ad for the special, Mr. Congressman, which put the spotlight on Thomas L. Ashley and Delbert Latta. There are also seven ads in the Channel 13 gallery. The first is a Monday, 6/3/63 ad for The Rebel "The Pit" (Nick Adams) followed by a Tuesday, 6/4/63 ad for McHale's Navy "McHale's Millions" (Ernest Borgnine). Next is a Thursday, 6/6/63 ad for The Silent Service and a Friday, 6/7/63 ad for Lawman "The Intruders" (John Russell). There's a Saturday, 6/8/63 ad for "Hondo" on Masterpiece Theater (John Wayne) and there two for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, a Tuesday, 6/11/63 ad (Jerry Colona) and a Thursday, 6/13/63 ad. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...