Sept. 2, 2011: Why Don't You Pick One Up and Smoke it Sometime?

Today, I added 17 more ads from April and May 1962 plus, in the Random Pages gallery, two Ray Oviatt "On the Beam" columns from the Blade. From Wednesday, 4/18/62 is "News of the TV News Beats" and from Saturday, 5/2/62 is "Odds and Ends of TV News," which tells of the arrival of Don Edwards to the Toledo TV scene. There are five ads in the Channel 11 gallery, including a Sunday, 4/22/62 ad for Marineland Carnival, a CBS special sponsored by Minute-Maid. Next is a Monday, 4/30/62 ad for Breck Golden Showcase "The Devil and Daniel Webster," again on CBS, and two ads for "A Star is Born" (Judy Garland), a Friday, 5/18/62 ad for part one on Night Owl Theater and a Saturday, 5/19/62 ad for part two on Hollywood Spectacular. There's also a Sunday, 5/20/62 ad for Image--Industry "Champion Spark Plug." There are two more for Series One in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Thursday, 4/12/62 ad for "The Age Barrier" and a Thursday, 5/3/62 ad for "Briefing." There are five in the Channel 13 gallery, including a Wednesday, 4/4/62 ad for a Hallmark Jamboree Special (Bob Hope). It was aired on a network of Ohio stations including channel 5 in Cleveland, channel 6 in Columbus, channel 7 in Dayton and channel 13 in Toledo. There's also a Friday, 4/13/62 ad for The Edie Adams Show (an ABC show, aired on channel 13 on a four-day delay) and a Wednesday, 4/25/62 ad for Chrysler Corporation's Rainbow of Stars from Rockefeller Center. This was an NBC special which aired on channel 13 on a nine-day delay. It was on against the regularly scheduled NBC show, Wagon Train which was on channel 11. Next is a Thursday, 5/18/62 ad for Ripcord "The Financier" and "The Killers" on Weekend Spectacular, and a Saturday, 5/19/62 ad for a Tigers-Indians baseball hame and "Undercurrent," again on Weekend Spectacular. There's one ad in the Radio Station Ads gallery , a Monday, 4/2/62 ad for Toledo Trust News with Oscar Huff on WTOL-AM 1230 and there are four more in the Other Vintage ads gallery. There's a Thursday, 4/5/62 ad for the Whirling Disc Record Shop, a Sunday, 4/22/62 ad for Ohio Bell, a Thursday, 5/17/62 ad for Gene Davis Appliance and a Wednesday, 5/16/62 ad (cartoon by Phil Jackson), comparing a trip to the Moon with shopping in downtown Toledo. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...