March 23, 2012: Dawn of 57

 

I added 19 more ads today, all from April 1973, plus one Random Pages gallery addition, a Thursday, 4/12/73 story by Norman Dresser (in the Peach Section of the Blade), "United Cerebral Palsy Telethon To Be Broadcast This Weekend From Field House At Toledo U." (George Stanford Brown, Meredith MacRae). There's a WDHO-TV ad for the telethon, below. There's one ad in the Channel 11 gallery, a Monday, 4/23/73 ad for the CBS Special Don Quixote (Rex Harrison), sponsored by IBM. There are two more in the Channel 11 News gallery with new anchorman Bill Rees, a Monday, 4/9/73 ad and a Monday, 4/16/73 ad. There's one in the Channel 13 gallery, a Monday, 4/30/73 ad for The Phil Donahue Show and The Merv Griffin Show, and there's one in the Channel 24 gallery, a Friday, 4/13/73 ad for Northwest Ohio's first celebrity Telethon for Cerebral Palsy, from Toledo University (Meredith MacRae, George Stanford Brown, Danny Bonaduce). There are three ads in the PBS gallery, two of them for WBGU-TV, now on channel 57. There's a Thursday, 4/5/73 ad ("your new neighbor in Northwest Ohio") and a Friday, 4/6/73 ad for Dawn of 57. There's also one for channel 30, a Monday, 4/30//73 ad for their annual Buy-In. There's also one in the Buckeye Cablevision Channel 5 gallery, a Sunday, 4/22/73 TV Tab ad for "The Brave Bulls." There are nine ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery including a Friday, 4/6/73 ad for a WCWA Playboy Vacation Contest, a Tuesday, 4/10/73 ad for a WLQR Amana Freezer / Kilgus Meats Contest, and a Thursday, 4/26/73 ad for WIOT's Weekend Radio Festival. The other six ads are all for WSPD, "Your Good Neighbor Station." There's a Tuesday, 4/10/73 ad for "News" (Neil Carmean, Don Edwards, Dick Scott), a Thursday, 4/12/73 ad for "Personalities" (Chuck Parmalee, Ron Tindall, Jim Lord, Jerry Keil, Art Barrie) and a Tuesday, 4/17/73 ad for "Growth." There's also a Saturday, 4/21/73 ad for "Sports" (Jerry Keil), a Wednesday, 4/25/73 ad for "Public Service." and a Saturday, 4/28/73 ad for "Traffic" (Al Hortsman). More to follow on Monday. Today's last ad is in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Saturday, 4/28/73 ad for The Anderson's open house of their new Maumee General Store and Garden Center. It's hard to believe that that store will be 40-years-old next year! More 1973 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...