March 11, 2020: Eye Operation Skillfully Done

There are eight additions today, all from March 1959 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There are two additions to the WTOL-TV 11 Ads Gallery 1:

Friday, 3/27/59 ad, for the CBS show, High Adventure with Lowell Thomas, sponsored by United Motors System / Delco Battery / Delco-Remy.

Monday, 3/30/59 ad, for "The Hard Road" on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, with Barry Sullivan and Cliff Robertson, on CBS.

There's one addition to the the WTOL-TV 11 Movie Gallery 1:

Sunday, 3/1/59 ad, for "Hail the Conquering Hero," sponsored by Better Builders Suplly Co., suppliers of Mural Stone.

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

Thursday, 3/26/59 ad, for the WSPD-TV premiere of the syndicated Bold Venture, starring Dane Clark and Joan Marshall. It was sponsored by Kroger.

Tuesday, 3/31/59 ad, for New York Confidential, starring Lee Tracy, sponsored by Drewrys Beer. The episode that night was "A Covenant with Death."

There are two additions to The Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Tuesday, 3/10/59 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt. "Eye Operation Skillfully Done" was a review of a WWJ-TV, Channel 4 show that aired the previous night. Another item was about WTLG changing its call letters to WHRW and Bowling Green basketball coverage by WOHO and WTOL.

Monday, 3/16/59 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, about WTOL's Peter Hahn joining the staff of WJR, about a Toledoan appearing on an NBC show, and about Eddie Chase resigning from CKLW-AM.

There's also one "other" ad, an addition to the Auto Manufacturers/Dealers Ads Gallery:

Tuesday, 3/3/59 Chrysler ad, featuring their Push-button automatic shifters (We're back in high gear at Chrysler Corporation.

More 1959 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way..