September 19, 2019: Everybody Watches The Ohio Story

There are three additions to the WSPD-TV 13 Ads Gallery 3:

Thursday, 12/3/57 ad, for "The Devil's Brew" on the CBS series Climax!, starring future Murder She Wrote star, Angela Lansbury, John Ericson and Stephen McNally.

Friday, 12/13/57 ad, for The Ohio Story presentation of "Up On the Housetops" (the story behind the song). It was sponsoreed by Ohio Bell.

Thursday, 12/26/57 ad, for The Pat Boone Chevy Show.

There's also one addition to the 1950s Detroit TV Station ads in The Blade Gallery:

Monday, 12/16/57 Basch's Jewelers ad for the NBC show, The Price Is Right, on Detroit's WWJ-TV, Channel 4. One of the prizes on the show was a Speidel watch band, sold at Basch's, in Toledo.

There are two additions to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Monday, 12/2/57 ad, for a University of Toledo Basketball game against Western Ontario, with play-by-play with Doug Tabner. It was sponsored by Food Town.

Sunday, 12/29/57 ad (Listener response indicated that...WTOL is fast becoming "Toledo's No. 1 Tune-In Choice..."

There's one addition to the Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Tuesday, 12/3/57 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about the Lennon Sisters salary on The Lawrence Welk Show.

The are four more "other" ads...

One addition to the Auto Service-Parts-Repair Gallery:

Wednesday, 12/4/57 ad, for Sohio Super Boron gasoline, "powered to meet the power of the 58's."

Two additions to the Auto Manufacturers/Dealers Ads Gallery:

Monday, 12/16/57 Plymouth ad, featuring Bob Hope, Betty White, and Lawrence Welk. Plymouth sponsored their TV shows.

Sunday, 12/29/57 full-page ad for Willys Motors (All roads lead to TOLEDO, home of Willys Motors).

There's also one addition to the Utilities, etc. Gallery:

Tuesday, 12/31/57 New Year's Eve ad, for The Red Cab Company (For your safe-t-y's sake, take a Red or Yellow Cab).

More ads (from 1958) from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...