December 3, 2013: The 24 Days of Christmas

 

You'll find 17 additional ads today, plus two Blade stories, all from 1975, 1976 and 1977, the first of this year's Holiday Season images. The first ad is a Thursday, 11/27/75 ad for Franklin Park Mall, announcing the arrival of Santa Claus, followed by a Thursday, 12/11/75 ad for Toledo Edison's Christmas Chorale, featuring the choirs of several Toledo high schools. Next is a Monday, 12/15/75 full-page holiday ad for Frank Unkle's restaurant, followed by another 12/15/75 ad for The Music of Christmas, on WSPD-AM. There's a Sunday, 12/21/75 TV Tab cover, showing some of that week's holiday shows, and a 12/21/75 two-page Sunday Magazine ad ("Merry Christmas from Marlboro Country"). There's a larger version of that ad here. There's also a Monday, 12/13/76 ad for "The Songs of Christmas" at Edison Plaza, followed by a Friday, 12/2/77 Blade Peach Section story by Norman Dresser, "Christmas Miniseries Showing on Ch. 11," about The 24 Days of Christmas. That story is followed by eight ads for that series, all in one image. There's a Tuesday, 12/6/77 ad for the Lucie Arnaz/Cuba segment, a Monday, 12/12/77 ad for the Sergio Mendes/Brazil segment, a Sunday, 12/18/77 ad for the Lou Gossett/Ghana segment, a Tuesday, 12/20/77 ad for the Peter Ustinov/Russia segment, a Wednesday, 12/21/77 ad for the Helen Reddy/Australia segment, a Thursday, 12/22/77 ad for the Danny Thomas/Lebanon segment, a Saturday, 12/24/77 ad for the Michael Caine/England segment, and a Sunday, 12/25/77 ad for the Henry Fonda/USA segment. All of these ads were in the Peach Section except for the two Sunday TV Tab ads. There's also a Wednesday, 12/7/77 ad for Southwyck Mall's Christmas Carrousel, and a Friday, 12/9/77 ad for The Lundstrom's Country Christmas, on Channel 11, and yes I know, the picture quality is really bad! The last item today, is a Thursday, 12/15/77 Peach Section story by Norman Dresser, "TV, Radio Christmas Shows Fill Holiday Week Schedule." 1977 and 1978 holiday ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...