March 19, 2012: February 14, The Day of 45 Crimes

 

I added 24 more ads today, from February and March 1973, plus one Random Pages gallery addition, two Thursday, 2/15/73 stories by Norman Dresser, in The Blade's Peach Section, "New Classical Music Series on FM Station," about The Concert Hall, and "New Talk Series Slated on Buckeye Cablevision," about Martha Stuart's Are You Listening?, a syndicated program which included a local follow-up show. There's also an ad for that program below. There are eight ads for movies in the Channel 11 gallery including one for The Saturday Late Show, a 2/24/73 ad for "The Song of Bernadette" (Jennifer Jones). The rest are for movies on The Big Show. There's a Tuesday, 2/13/73 ad for "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (George Segal), a Wednesday, 2/14/73 ad for "Exodus," a Monday 2/19/73 ad for "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and a Thursday, 2/22/73 ad for "The Fortune Cookie" (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau). There's also a Monday, 2/26/73 ad for "Bird Man of Alcatraz" (Burt Lancaster), a Wednesday, 2/28/73 ad for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers) and a Thursday, 3/1/73 ad for "The Misfits" (Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable). There are three more in the Channel 11 News gallery, a Tuesday, 2/20/73 ad, a Tuesday, 2/27/73 ad and a Friday, 3/2/73 ad. There's just one in the Channel 13 gallery, a Sunday, 2/25/73 ad for Country Western Hit Parade, a special on NBC, sponsored by Columbia Gas. There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Thursday, 2/15/73 ad for The Venner-Ward Report (David Drury, Jim Rudes, June Miller, John Saunders and Chase Clements, in back, and Frank Venner, Frank Gilhooley and Gordon Ward, in front), and a Tuesday, 2/27/73 ad for The Noon Report (June Miller, Jim Rudes). There are two more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery for a two part John Saunders report on crime in Toledo, a Thursday, 2/22/73 ad for part one and a Friday, 2/23/73 ad for part two. There's one in the Channel 24 News gallery, a Monday, 2/19/73 ad for Edison News Final. There are two in the Buckeye Cablevision gallery, a Friday, 2/16/73 ad for City Championship Basketball with St. Francis playing DeVilbiss, at the Waite Fieldhouse, and a Sunday, 2/25/73 ad for Are You Listening?, a Martha Stewart production. There's just one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 2/23/73 ad for The Burt Bacharach Biography on WLQR-FM 101,5. There are four more ads in the Other Vintage ads gallery, including a Wednesday, 2/14/73 ad for Vic Tanny's Valentine Special, and a Sunday, 2/25/73 ad for a sale at The Anderson's Warehouse Market, which was closing soon, due to the opening of their new store across the street, There's also another Southwck Mall ad, a Thursday, 3/1/73 ad for a boat show, and a Friday, 3/2/73 ad for the new Southwyck lanes, managed by Junior Powell. More 1973 ads (including a Sylvania Savings Bank ad for Toledo's first ATM), from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...