May 18, 2012: Festival 75

 

I added 18 more ads today, from February and March, 1975 plus four more Random Pages gallery additions, all from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Wednesday, 2/26/75 AP story, “Cher Banned in Time Slot As 'Too Mature'” and five more stories by Norman Dresser, a Friday, 2/28/75 story, “WSPD Radio Plans Juvenile Series,” about Juvenile Justice: A Time for Change, three Thursday, 3/13/75 stories, “Frank Blair To Make Final Newscast,” “Ch. 24 To Carry Ohio Lottery Show” and “Promotions Reported By Ch. 13 and Ch. 11,” about Larry Whatley and Marc Stover, and a Wednesday, 3/19/75 story, “Ch. 30 Begins Series On Schools,” about Your Children, Your Schools, a five-part series. There's an ad for the first part, below. There's one ad in the Channel 11 gallery, a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for a Bowling Green vs. Central Michigan basketball game. There are three in the Channel 24 gallery, the first one, a Thursday, 3/6/75 ad for ABC Theater, “Love Among the Ruins” (Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier) and two for the weekly Thursday night Ohio Lottery show, a 3/13/75 ad (for the first show seen in Toledo, see related story here) and a 3/20/75 ad. There are seven channel 30 ads in the PBS gallery, several for their Festival 75 programming. There's a Wednesday, 3/5/75 ad, and a Friday, 3/7/75 ad for The 1975 Ski Jumping Championships, Washington Week in Review, Wall Street Week, Masterpiece Theatre, and Profile in Music: Beverly Sills. Next is a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for Big Band Cavalcade, Lowell Thomas Remembers, and Of Pure Blood and a Saturday, 3/15/75 ad for The Grover Monster—Jean Marsh Cartoon Special, Tom T. Hall: The Story Teller, An Hour with Jaon Baez and Austin City Limits with Willie Nelson. There's also a Thursday 3/13/75 ad for Soundstage with the Pointer Sisters, a Sunday, 3/16/75 ad for The Romagnoli's Table (Franco and Margaret Romagnoli) and a Wednesday, 3/19/75 ad for the premiere of the channel 30 series, Your Children Your Schools, “The Multi-Unit School: What's It All About?” There are four ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, two for WTUU-AM 1520 coverage of AAA High School Basketball games, a Thursday, 2/27/75 ad for sectional finals and a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for district finals. Teams playing included Macomber, St. John's, Clay, Whitmer, Scott, Rogers, Sylvania and DeVilbiss. There's also a Thursday, 3/6/75 ad for a district finals game on WKLR-FM 99.9 with Scott playing Clay, and a Friday, 3/7/75 ad for Green Up Tips on WCWA-AM 1230, with Art and Shirl Landseadel, formely on WSPD. There are three more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 3/6/75 ad for Kroma Antenna Service, a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for Pappy Parker famous fried chicken at the Roy Rogers Family Restaurant in Bowling Green, and a Tuesday, 3/11/75 ad for Tab and Fresca, in 32 oz. Returnables. I also added another ad to the AutoPilot Companion gallery, a Sunday, 9/12/93 ad for the Sequest DSV series premiere, on NBC. It will be the subject of next Wednesday's (May 23, 2012) AutoPilot podcast. More 1975 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...