January 11, 2012: The Nun and the Train

I added 22 more ads today from April and May 1970, seven of them in the Channel 11 gallery. There's a Friday, 5/1/70 ad for "The Asphalt Jungle" on The Friday Night Movie, a Saturday, 5/2/70 ad for a Tigers vs. White Sox baseball game and Thursday, 5/7/70 ad for "Julius Caesar," shown in two parts on The Big Show. Next is a Friday, 5/8/70 ad for "Million Dollar Mermaid" on The Friday Night Movie (Esther Williams), a Sunday, 5/10/70 ad for "Sweet Bird of Youth" on The Sunday Show (Paul Newman) and a Tuesday, 5/12/70 ad for the CBS special, Arthur Godfrey's America - The Ocean Frontier. There are three more WTOL-TV ads in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Saturday, 5/2/70 ad for the CBS special, LBJ: Tragedy and Transistion with Walter Cronkite interviewing Lyndon Johnson, and two ads for Don Edwards' News/90 series of reports, "The Nun and the Train." There's a Monday, 5/4/70 ad and a Wednesday, 5/5/70 ad for the reports on attorney Sister Ann Joachim of Adrian, Michigan and her efforts to save the Wabash Cannonaball from extinction. See her NY Times obituary here. There's also a Sunday, 5/3/70 WDHO-TV ad in that gallery for a James A. Rhodes vs. Robert A. Taft, Jr. debate. and there are two more WSPD-TV ads for The Venner-Ward Report in that gallery, too. There's a Tuesday, 5/5/70 ad for the Bill Harris series of reports on "Toledo's Black Panthers" and a Tuesday, 5/12/70 ad for a Jim Rudes series of reports on "Drugs...The Sound of Silence." There are four in the Channel 13 gallery including a Thursday, 4/30/70 ad for "The Rare Breed" on Thursday Night at the Movies (James Stewart) and a Saturday, 5/2/70 ad for NBC's MLB Game of the Week with the Twins vs. the Orioles and "Nobody's Perfect" on NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies (Doug McClure). There's also a Monday, 5/4/70 ad for Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and a Thursday, 5/7/70 ad for "The Killers" on Thursday Night at the Movies (Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson). There are two more "Watch the Winners" ads in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Wednesday, 4/29/70 ad for The Venner-Ward Report (Frank Gilhooley, June Miller, Gordon Ward, Frank Venner, David Drury) and a Wednesday, 5/13/70 ad for The Noon Report (June Miller). There are two in the Channel 24 gallery, a Thursday, 4/30/70 ad for the premiere of Animal World on ABC and a Sunday, 5/3/70 ad for the ABC News Special "The Unseen World." There are also two ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Monday, 5/11/70 ad for WSPD-AM 1370's High/Low Contest and a Wednesday, 5/13/70 Greek Week / WTTO-AM 1520 / Downtown Sound ad for a Chambers Brothers concert at the Toledo University Fieldhouse. Tickets were avaiable at Headquarters, Black Night, Ohio Auto Sound, House of Tapes, Adams Needle, Hit Records, Chess King, Village Music, Grinnell's Westgate, and Downtown Sound. More May 1970 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...