March 8, 2011: 97 In Service

There are 20 more ads today from January and February 1964, most of them in the Channel 11 gallery. There's a Monday 1/27/64 ad for another Battleline, a 1/29/64 ad for a local special, Arrangements for First Violin (Toledo concert violintist Helen Kwalwasser) and a Saturday, 2/15/64 ad for The Bing Crosby Show CBS special. There are eleven more for movies on Night Owl Theater, The Big Show, Weekend Spectacular and The Sunday Show. The first one is a Saturday, 1/25/64 ad for "I Was A Male Order War Bride" (Cary Grant) and there's a Tuesday, 1/28/64 ad for "Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl" (Eva Gabor, Anthony Dexter) and "Raton Pass" (Steve Cochran). Next is a Thursday, 1/30/64 ad for "Escape from Red Rock" (Brian Donlevy) and "The Man Behind the Gun" (Randolph Scott) and a Saturday, 2/1/64 ad for "The Half Breed" (Robert Young). There's a Sunday, 2/2/64 ad for "Smoky" (Fred MacMurray) and a Monday, 2/3/64 ad for "Pagan Love Song" (Ester Williams, Howard Keel) and "Top of the World." Next is a Thursday, 2/6/64 ad for "Brass Legend" (Hugh O'Brian) and Cecil B. DeMille's "Union Pacific" (Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck) followed by a Saturday, 2/8/64 ad for "A Life in the Balance" (Lee Marvin). There's a Sunday, 2/9/64 ad for five W.C. Fields movies on the following week's Night Owl Theater ("On the Flying Trapeze," "Poppy," "It's a Gift," "International House" and "Mississippi"), another Friday, 2/14/64 ad for "Mississippi" and a Saturday, 2/15/64 ad for Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent." There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery. It's a Thursday, 2/13/64 ad for 97 In Service, a special with channel 11 riding along with Toledo police accident investigators, The Channel 13 gallery has a Sunday, 2/2/64 Kroger ad for a special previewing the New York World's Fair. There are three ads for car dealers in the Other Vintage ads gallery including a 1/28/64 Jim White Chevrolet ad (Win an all expense paid trip to the World's Fair in New York). There's a 2/3/64 Pontiac GTO ad for sales at Brown, Roth, Front and Carroll in Toledo and a 2/9/64 Carl F. Weissenberger Chevrolet ad which tied-in with the Chevrolet sponsored NBC series, Bonanza. Today's last ad is in the Radio Station Ads gallery . It's 2/3/64 ad featuring th "Eyes and Ears" of WJR's George Kimball, Frank Tomlinson, a very young Jim Harper, William Harris, George Collins, David White, Richard C. Hottelet, Douglas Edwards, Lowell Thomas and Allan Jackson. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...