March 21, 2012: The Midnight Movie

I added 18 more ads today, from March and April, 1973 plus two more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade, all stories by Norman Dresser. There are two Tuesday, 3/20/73 stories, "WBGU-TV Moves to Ch. 57 Saturday" and "Ch. 11 Tapes Special Based on Rep Comedy" and there are three Thursday, 4/5/73 stories, "New Anchorman For Ch. 11 Named," about Bill Rees, "Kirk Knight Retiring From Detroit's WWJ" and "Buckeye Cablevision Adds Two Shows," about Sixth Grade Report and Jabberwocky. There are two ads in the Channel 11 gallery, a Monday, 3/5/73 ad for "The Road to Hong Kong" on The Big Show and a Thursday, 3/22/73 ad for a CBS special, Tom Sawyer, sponsored by Dr. Pepper. There are four in the Channel 13 gallery, two of them for Bob Hope specials on NBC. There's a Wednesday, 3/7/72 ad for The Bob Hope Mardi Gras Special and a Tuesday, 3/27/73 ad for The Gillette Cavalcade of Champions. There's also a Friday, 3/9/72 ad for Oral Roberts Presents (Roy Clark) and a 3/27/73 ad for four Tuesday night specials, On Wednesday it Snowed, a WSPD-TV special with John Saunders at Camp Storer, and three NBC specials, Keep U.S. Beautiful, Bob Hope Presents the Gillette Cavalcade of Champions and The 45th Annual Academy Awards. There's one in the PBS gallery, a Monday, 3/19/72 ad for open auditions at Creative Workshop, for future dramas to be produced by WBGU-TV. There are two in the Buckeye Cablevision gallery for Martha Stewart's Are You Listening?, a Tuesday, 3/6/73 ad for "Freaks" and a Tuesday, 3/20/73 ad for "Boys with Long Hair." There are three for The Midnight Movie, in the Buckeye Cablevision Channel 5 gallery, a Thursday, 3/15/73 ad for "The Last Posse," a Monday, 3/26/73 ad for "On the Waterfront" (Marlon Brando) and a Monday 4/2/73 ad for "The Solid Gold Cadillac." There's one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Monday, 3/5/72 ad, another one for The Concert Hall, featuring the Toledo Symphony Orchestra with commentary by Boris Nelson, on WMHE-FM 92.5. The last five ads are all in the Other Vintage ads gallery. There's a Tuesday, 3/6/73 ad for the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority, "Fly TARTA to Hawaii," a Thursday, 3/8/73 ad for the 25% off sale for the closing of Tiedtke's Greenwood Mall store, and a Thursday, 3/8/73 ad for Toledo's first ATM, "Mister Cash," at Sylvania Savings Bank. There's another 3/8/73 ad for Toledo Home Federal and a Thursday, 3/25/73 ad for Draft brewed Blatz Beer, in "Barrels." More 1973 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...