July 13, 2011: Ahoy Matey

There are 18 additional ads today, from August and September, 1960 and two more Random Pages gallery additions, both of them Ray Oviatt "On the Beam" columns. There's a Tuesday, 9/6/60 story on WTOL starting their TV studios at 606 Jackson St. There are also items about Johnny Dauro being named program director at WOHO and Channel 13 carrying Ed Allen's show. There's also a Friday, 9/23/60 story about channel 13 carrying NBC's early morning series Continental Classroom. There are also items about J. Howard Williams being named general manager of WHRW, WTOL-AM carrying The Ten Days and Alan Young and Connie Hines starring in the new syndicated series Mr. Ed. There's just one ad in the Channel 11 gallery, a Tuesday, 9/27/60 ad for The Tom Ewell Show "Tom Cuts Off the Credit," which was the series premiere. There are three more WTOL-TV ads in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery for the Monday night CBS News series, Presidential Countdown, a 9/12/60 ad for "Mr. Nixon: a Profile," a 9/19/60 ad for "Mr. Kennedy: a Profile" and a 9/26/60 ad for "Mr. Johnson, a Profile," The last ad stated it was for the second part of the series, when it was actually the third. There are eight more in the the Channel 13 gallery including four ads leading up to the premiere of Popeye and Captain Cotton with Salty. There's a Thursday, 9/1/60 ad, a Friday, 9/2/60 ad, a Saturday, 9/3/60 ad and a Monday, 9/5/60 ad. Jerry Carr was Captain Cotton and Dick Beach was Salty. Here's the link to a new Blade story by Daniel Bethencourt about Carr and Beach. Be sure to check it out. There's also a Friday, 9/9/60 ad for the channel 13 premiere of Ed Allen Time and a Sunday 9/18/60 ad for a Denver-Buffalo American League Football game on ABC. Next is another 9/18/60 ad for NBC's Continental Classroom series on modern algebra and a Wednesday, 9/21/60 ad for Landmark's Jamboree of Stars (Jimmy Dean, Minnie Pearl). There's one in the NBC gallery, a Monday, 9/19/60 ad for the series premiere of the Barbara Stanwyck Show, "The Mink Coat" on Detroit's WWJ-TV 4. There are five more in the Radio Station Ads gallery. There's a Friday, 8/19/60 ad for Fulton Lewis, Jr. on WOHO, a Friday, 9/16/60 ad for the 1960 Toledo Rockets football opener against Youngstown on WTOL and three more WTOL ads for Doug Tabner's Buckeye 4-Star Sports Final (Doug Tabner), a Wednesday, 8/31/60 ad, a Thursday, 9/22/60 ad and a Monday, 9/26/60 ad. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...