December 14, 2014: Have Fun on First Night!

 

There are fifteen more ads today, from December 1993 and November & December 1994, including fourteen additions to the Holiday Season Ads gallery. The first is one of two more TV5 "12 Days of Christmas" ads, a Friday, 12/17/93 ad (Win a Citizen Watch from JCPenney). Next is another 12/17/93 ad, for Mountain Jacks (Happy Holidays...Open Christmas Day), followed by a Saturday, 12/18/93 ad for the animated Santa Claus is Coming to Town on TV5. There's another 12/18/83 ad, for Madeline's Christmas, also on TV5, and the other "12 Days of Christmas" ad, a Tuesday, 12/21/93 ad (Win Boston Acoustics speakers from Paragon Sound). There's also a Friday, 12/24/93 full-page ad (Season's Greetings from the staff and management of The Blade), another 12/24/93 ad for the TV5 movie "Scrooge" and one more 12/24/93 ad, for A Branson Family Christmas on the Family Channel. Next are two Thursday, 12/30/93 "First Night Toledo" ads, a MidAm Bank ad (Come Join us for The New Years Eve Celebration!) and a CableSystem ad (Have fun on First Night!). There's one more 12/30/93 ad, for The Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant on Impulse pay-per-view. There are three 1994 ads, a Saturday, 11/26/94 ad for Holiday Festival on Ice (Kristi Yamaguchi) on TV5, a Saturday, 12/3/94 ad for "Babar, the Movie" and Babar and Father Christmas, also on TV5, and another 12/3/94 ad for "Miracle on 34th Street" (Sebastian Cabot) on USA. Today's last ad is an addition to the Football Bowl Game Ads gallery, a Tuesday, 12/28/93 ad for ESPN's Thrifty Car Rental Bowl Week. ESPN's bowl games included the Liberty Bowl, the Weiser Lock Copper Bowl, the Thrifty Car Rental Holiday Bowl, the Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl, the Alamo Bowl, and the Hall of Fame Bowl. More December 1994 ads and November 1995 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...