August 15, 2011: View a Day in the World

There are twenty additional ads today from October and November 1961. There are twelve in the the Channel 11 gallery including a Sunday, 10/29/61 ad for Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" on CBS (Laurence Olivier), and a Tuesday, 10/31/61 ad for Marshal Dillon, Death Valley Days "Lieutenant Bungle," The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis "The Fast White Mouse," The Red Skelton Show, Ichabod and Me "The Purple Cow" and The Garry Moore Show. All of these shows were on CBS except Death Valley Days which channel 11 showed instead of The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS. There's also a Monday, 11/6/61 ad for The Danny Kaye Show on CBS. There are nine more for movies on The Big Show, Night Owl Theatre, Hollywood Spectacular and Sunday Movietime. The first one is a Sunday, 10/29/61 two-page ad for 48 Movies of the 50's to be shown in the coming weeks. There is also a larger (2080 x 1600) version here. Next is a Monday, 10/30/61 ad for "Sand" (Rory Calhoun), and "Tarzan and the Slave Girl" (Lex Barker, Denise Darcel), a Tuesday, 10/31/61 ad for "Walk a Crooked Mile" and "Plunder of the Sun" (Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn) and a Wednesday, 11/1/61 ad for "Sorrowful Jones" (Bob Hope) and "Father Was a Fullbck" (Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara). There's a Thursday, 11/2/61 ad for "Cry Wolf" (Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck) and "American Guerilla in the Phillipines" (Tyrone Power, Tom Ewell), a Friday, 11/3/61 ad for "Mr. Lucky" (Cary Grant) and a Saturday, 11/4/61 ad for "Track of the Cat" (Robert Mitchum). There's also a Sunday. 11/5/61 ad for "The Black Whip" (Hugh Marlowe) and a Monday, 11/6/61 ad for "Flame of the Barbary Coast" (John Wayne) and "Sabre Jet" (Robert Stack). There are four in the Channel 13 gallery, a Tuesday, 10/31/61 ad for Manhunt (Victor Jory, Patrick McVey), a Wednesday, 11/1/61 ad for Divorce Court, and two more for Weekend Spectacular movies, a Saturday, 11/4/61 ad for "Tap Roots" (Van Heflin, Susan Hayward) and a Sunday, 11/5/61 ad for "Woman of the River" (Sophia Loren). There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Saturday, 11/4/61 ad for News Final (Lou Harris) and Local Scene and Weekend Weather (Don Bexton), and a Monday, 11/6/61 ad for Deadline at 6:30. There are two in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Saturday, 11/4/61 ad for WTOD-AM 1560 and a Monday, 11/6/61 ad for WTRT-FM 99.9's "Radio International" featuring The Arabian Hour, Polka Party (Helen and Chet Zablocki), Polish Melodies, The German-American Hour and The Czechoslovak Hour. The last ad is in the the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Sunday, 11/5/61 full-page ad for Tiedtke's Giant Birthday Sale which featured personal appearances by Jakob Hacken (the world's tallest man), Art Barrie, Captain Cotton and Salty, Mr. T and others. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...