November 4, 2012: Business is Picking Up

 

I added 23 more ads today, all from October. 1979 plus one Random Pages gallery addition from a Peach Section of The Blade, two Tuesday, 10/16/79 items by Norman Dresser, about Phillip Arrington being appointed promotion director at WTOL-TV and NBC Radio's The Kenny Rogers Music Special on WSPD-AM. There are four additions to the Channel 11 gallery, all for movies. There's a Monday, 10/1/79 ad for the three-part “Testimony of Two Men” on The Big Show and a Friday, 10/5/79 ad for “Vampire Circus” on Scream Gems. The next two are both for The Big Show, a Wednesday, 10/10/79 ad for “The Mechanic” (Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent) and a Tuesday, 10/16/79 ad for “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (Cicely Tyson). There's one addition to the Channel 13 gallery, a Monday, 10/1/79 ad introducing 13 Strong's new call letters, WTVG. There are six additions to the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, all for reports on 24 Eyewitness News, which I believe are the first ones in that gallery for WDHO-TV. There's a Monday, 10/8/79 ad for a Larry Whatley “Eyewitness Close Up” report on sexually abused children and five more for an Asa Smith series of “Eyewitness Close Up” reports on prostitution in Toledo, a Monday, 10/15/79 ad (Business is Picking Up), a Tuesday, 10/16/79 ad (Career Opportunities in Toledo), a Wednesday, 10/17/79 ad (Fringe Benefits in Toledo), a Thursday, 10/18/79 ad (For a Good Time, Call...) and a Friday, 10/19/79 ad (The Loveless Ones). There are four additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30. The first one is a Monday, 10/1/79 ad for Musical Comedy Tonight with Richard Chamberlain, Carol Burnett, John Davidson, Agnes DeMille, Sandy Duncan, Rock Hudson, Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters and Bobby Van. Next is a Thursday, 10/4/79 ad for the second season premiere of Vibrations with Executive Force and the Social Lubrication Band. There's also a Friday, 10/5/79 ad for Ohio Journal and a Saturday, 10/13/79 ad for a tape-delayed airing of an Indiana vs. Ohio State football game. There are six additions to the Radio Station Ads gallery, four of them for WOHO's Cash Call Contest, a Friday, 10/5/79 ad (Buddy Carr with Georgiana McCormick), a Wednesday, 10/10/79 ad (Beau Elliot with Carolyn Paul), a Friday, 10/12/79 ad (Jay Scott with Tom Davis) and a Wednesday, 10/17/79 ad (Jay Scott with Mel Perz). There's also a Saturday, 10/13/79 ad for WMHE's morning show with Ron Sobczak and Gail Vascik, and a Monday, 10/15/79 ad for Z-105, WXEZ-FM. There are also two additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Monday, 10/8/79 ad for Blade entertainment editor Norman Dresser and a Thursday, 10/11/79 full-page ad for the 56 stores at Westgate Village Shopping Center. More October 1979 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...