It's been over two weeks since I added any ads, but I do have 18
more to add today, all from June, 1962, plus two more additions to the Random Pages gallery from the Friday, 6/15/62 Blade Peach Section. The first story i
s about channel 11's upcoming coverage of the wedding of Romper Room's Connie Harlan and channel 11 newscaster Gordon Ward. The second srory is an AP report on a three-year pay-tv experiment in Hartford, Conn. There are eight ads in the th
e Channel 11 gallery for movies on The Big Show, Night Owl Theater and Hollywood Spectacular. There's a Thursday, 6/7/62 ad for "The High and the Mighty," "Rio Grande" (John Wayne) and "Tarzan's Revenge," a Friday, 6/8/62 ad for "Tarzan's Revenge" a
nd "Dam Busters" (Richard Todd) and a Saturday, 6/9/62 ad for Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (Robert Walker). Next is a Monday, 6/11/62 ad for "Carson City." "Plunder Road" and "Iron Sheriff" (Sterling Hayden), a Tuesday, 6/12/62 ad for "The Damned Don't Cry" (Joan Crawford) and "Tarzan Finds a Son"
(Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield) and a Wednesday, 6/13/62 ad for "Nightmare" (Edward G, Robinson) and "Bwana Devil" (Robert Stack). There's also a Thursday, 6/14/62 ad for "Flying Tigers" and "Pittsburgh" (John
Wayne) and a Friday, 6/15/62 ad for "Foreign Intrigue" (Robert Mitchum). There are also eight in the Channel 13 gallery including two for movies on The Morning Movie and Matinee Theater. There's a Wednesday, 6/6/62 ad for "The Thing" and "Caribbean" (John Payne) and a Thursda
y, 6/7/62 ad for "Embraceable You" (Dane Clark) and "The Judge Steps Out" (Ann Sothern). There's also a Friday, 6/8/62 ad for Ripcord and "White Heat" on Weekend Spectacular, a Saturday, 6/9/62 ad for Tiger Baseball (Detroit at Washington) and
"Possessed" on Weekend Spectacular and a Sunday, 6/10/62 ad for another Tigers-Senators baseball game, "The Wonderful Country" on ABC's Hollywood Special (Robert Mitchum, Julie London) and "Cry Havok" (Ann Sothern
) again on Weekend Spectacular. Next is a Tuesday, 6/12/62 ad for a Tigers-Yankees baseball game and Local Scene (Jim Rudes), a Wednesday, 6/13/62 ad for ABC Evening Report and Divorce Court and a Friday, 6/15/62 ad for M-Squad "The Fight" (Lee Marvin) and "The Unsuspected" on Weekend Spectacular (Claude Raines).
There's one more in the the Channel 13 News gallery, a Monday, 6/11/62 ad for Deadline and Warren Guthrie and the News. The last ad is in th
e Other Vintage ads gallery. It's a Wednesday, 6/6/62 ad inviting people to shop Downtown Toledo for Father's Day. It will be a while before I post again, but more vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...