November 26, 2019: Down To Earth

There are eight additions today, all from August 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There are two ads for radio stations...

One addition to the WMHE-FM Gallery:

Thursday, 8/7/58 ad: For the best in music people agree it's WMHE.

One addition to the WSPD-AM Gallery 1:

Friday, 8/22/58 ad for Down to Earth with Art and Shirl Landseadel, produced by Secor Landscape Co.

There are three additions to the The Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Tuesday, 8/5/58 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, about Detroit TV stars Sagebrush Shorty and Ricky the Clown, appearing at the Lucas County Fair.

Wednesday, 8/6/58 publicity picture of Judy Bamber of Ann Arbor. Judy Bamber would appear on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Hawaiian Eye, Peter Gunn, M Squad, Bachelor Father, and other TV shows.

Wednesday, 8/20/58 story titled, "WSPD-TV Will Join ABC; WTOL-TV To Be Part of CBS Chain."

There are three more "other" ads, all additions to the Utilities Gallery:

There are two ads for Ohio Bell:

Saturday, 8/16/58 ad: 45,000 More Toledo and Vicinity Telephone Numbers Change August 17, 1958.

Sunday, 8/17/58 ad: Use the New directory...to find the New numbers!

There's also a Tuesday, 8/19/58 ad for Your Ohio Electric Companies, including Toledo Edision: The work day that never ends...

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

November 19, 2019: Highway Patrol

There are five additions today, all from July 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There's one addition to the WSPD-TV 13 Ads Gallery 3:

Sunday, 7/13/58 ad, for Highway Patrol, starring Broderick Crawford, sposnored by Ohio Bell.

There are two ads for radio stations...

One addition to the WMHE-FM Gallery:

Wednesday, 7/2/58 ad, for Toledo's newest radio station.

One addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Tuesday, 7/8/58 ad, for WTOL's Anniversary Party at the Miracle Mile Drive-In Theatre.

And there are two "other" ads...

One addition to the Food-Drinks-Tobacco-Misc Products Gallery 2:

Tuesday, 7/1/58 full-page ad for Stroh's Beer (good fun...good friends...and Stroh's).Stroh's sponsored San Francisco Beat on WSPD-TV, Chjannel 13.

One addition to the Toledo Area Events...Gallery #1:

Saturday, 7/28/58 ad, for a showing of the dramatic Billy Graham evangelsitic film, "The Heart is a Rebel," at Devils Lake Drive-In Church Theatre.

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

November 14, 2019: Color Radio Comes To Northwestern Ohio


There are ten additions today, all from June 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Wednesday, 6/11/58 ad, for The Better Business Bureau Story.

Thursday, 6/12/58 ad, for Official Detective, sponsored by Richfield Construction.

Friday, 6/20/58 ad, for The Local News, sponsored by Toro, available at Century Power Mower Center.

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

Monday, 6/2/58 ad, for NBC's Today Show, featuring Dave Garroway viiting the Scholz Mark 58 "house of the year" at Imperial Woods, located at Talmadge Road and Sylvania Avenue.

There are four ads for radio stations...

Two additions to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Thursday, 6/5/58 ad, for new WTOL-AM news director, Peter Hahn.

Friday, 6/6/58 ad, another one for new WTOL-AM news director, Peter Hahn.

One addition to the Other Radio Stations/Networks Gallery:

Monday, 6/12/58 ad, for WFIN-AM in Findlay (Color Radio Comes to Northwestern Ohio),

One addition to the WMHE-FM Gallery:

Three ads in one image:

Wednesday, 6/25/58 ad: The Finest Sound in Town...

Friday, 6/27/58 ad: Have You Discovered...FM Broadcasting

Saturday, 6/28/58 ad: Like Music?...Daily 9A.M. to 2 A.M.

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

Tuesday, 6/17/58 "On The Beam" item, by Ray Oviatt, about Toledoan Fred Leibundgut, recent Queen for a Day winner.

Tuesday, 6/24/58 picture of Brigitte Bardot, in a bath tub.

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

November 6, 2019: Wherever You Go There's WOHO

There are nine additions today, all from May 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Tuesday, 5/13/56 ad, for Phil Silvers On Broadway, on CBS, sponsored by Pontiac. No Toledo station carried the program, but it was on Detroit's WJBK-TV, Channel 2.

There are two additions to the WOHO Gallery:

Thursday, 5/1/58 ad: Wherever You Go There;s WOHO, 1470 on your dial. Listen and win an RCA Radio. May is Radio Month.

Thursday, 5/22/58 ad: Come see "Little Joe" in Person, broadcasting over WOHO...direct from Hoffman Furniture.

And there are six additions to the The Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Tuesday, 5/6/58 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about Maverick being renewed for another season by sponsor Willy's Motors / Kaiser Industries.

Wednesday, 5/7/58 picture of future "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig.

Thursday, 5/8/58 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about Toledo native James Morgan resigning as producer of Do You Trust Your Wife? on ABC.

Monday, 5/19/58 picture of future High Chaparral star Linda Cristal.

Wednesday, 5/21/58 picture of Mitzi Gaynor.

Friday, 5/23/58 picture of future "Catwoman" Julie Newmar.

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

October 28, 2019: How to Arrange Flowers

There are seven additions today, all from April 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Sunday, 4/20/58 ad, for How to Arrange Flowers with author J. Gregory Conway, sponsored by Houbigant Perfumes.

Sunday 4/20/58 Sealtest ad, for "Land of Green Ginger" on Shirley Temple's Storybook.

Sunday, 4/20/58 Breck ad, for "Land of Green Ginger" on Shirley Temple's Storybook.

There are two additions to the WOHO Gallery:

Tuesday, 4/15/58 ad, for a program with GM vice president William F. Hufstader addressing the Toledo YMCA on the subject, "Cog or Character."

Tuesday, 4/29/58 ad (Radio is Close to You, at home...on the move...in your community...May is National Radio Month).

There are also two additions to the Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Tuesday, 4/15/58 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, about the popularity of TV westerns and about Toledo golfer Frank Stranahan, appearing on ABC's All-Star Golf series.

Thursday, 4/24/58 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, about Peter Hahn becoming the next news director at WTOL-AM, about Tempo becoming a weekday feature on WSPD-AM, and about a Joe Gillis documentary series on WTOD-AM.

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

October 20, 2019: Target

There are six additions today, all from April 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There's one addition to the WSPD-TV 13 Ads Gallery 3:

Tuesday, 4/1/58 ad, for the Target episode, "Breaking Point" with host Adolphe Menjou and starring Howard Duff and Maria Riva. It was sponsored by Big D Drewrys Beer.

There's one addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Monday, 4/14/56 ad, for Cleveland Indians Baseball on "Toledo's Sports Station" (vs. the Kansas City Athletics),

There are three additions to the Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Thursday, 4/3/58 picture, of Jill St. John and John Saxon on Lake Arrowhead.

Another Thursday, 4/3/58 picture, of George Gobel and Diana Dors, on a bicycle.

Part of a Thursday, 4/10/58 "On The Beam" column by Ray Oviatt, "TV, Radio Schedule Ball Games." Tigers games were televised by WSPD-TV, Channel 13 and on Detroit's WJBK-TV, Channel 2. Indians games were on Cleveland's WEWS-TV, Channel 5. WTOD-AM had radio coverage of The Tigers daytime games and WJR-AM had both daytime and night games. WTOL-AM had coverage of Indians games WIMA-AM in Lima had Reds games.

There's one more "other" ad, an addition to the Auto Service-Parts-Repair Gallery:

Thursday, 4/10/58 ad, for the new Sohio Science Center near Cleveland.

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

October 12, 2019: Union Pacific

There are six additions today, all from March 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Monday, 3/17/58 ad: Coming Soon, Union Pacific, sponsored by Kroger.

Thursday, 3/27/58 ad: Tonight, Union Pacific, sponsored by Kroger, where you could buy products such as New Era Potato Chips, La Choy Chinese Foods, Seabrook Farms Frozen Foods, Delmonico Spaghetti and Macaroni, Schmidt's Preferred Meats, Miller's Gold Seal Ice Cream, and Thorobred Dog Food.

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

Saturday, 3/1/58 picture of newcomer Jill St. John.

Wednesday, 3/5/58 picture of 15-year-old Sandra Dee.

There are two more "other" ads...

One addition to the Auto Manufacturers/Dealers Ads Gallery:

Monday, 3/17/58 Ford ad (If you drive after dark read this letter!)

One addition to the TV-Radio ads Gallery:

Monday, 3/24/58 ad, for Motorola Car Radio.

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

October 6, 2019: The World In Your Home

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

Friday, 2/7/68 ad, for The Ohio Story, "The Inner City," sposnored by Ohio Bell.

Wednesday, 2/19/58 ad, for Victor Borge's prersentation of "Comedy in Music," sponsored by Pontiac.

There's one addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Wednesday, 2/19/58 ad, for WTOL-AM (Meet Toledo's Top 5 D.J.'s...Allan Michaels, Joe Weaver, Brooks Morton, Larry DeVeau, and Jim Hamilton...Now Everybody Listens to WTOL 1230 on your dial!),

There are four additions to the Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Thursday, 2/6/58 picture of Joanna Moore, who would late play Peggy McMillan on The Andy Griffith Show.

Monday, 2/3/58 "New York Notes" story by Fritz Spitzer, "T.U. Chroisters Do Well On TV," about their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Tuesday, 2/4/58 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, about a radio worksop for area Protestant ministers and WOSU-TV's use of portable TV equipment at Ohio State Universirty.

Tuesday, 2/25/58 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, titled "Toleoans, In Alaska, On Sunday TV," about Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lancashire's appearance on See It Now.

There's one more "other" ad...

One addition to the Toledo Area Events...Gallery # 2:

Monday, 2/2/58 ad, for the 22nd Annual Toledo Sports, Home, Boat & Auto Show, at the Civic Auditorium, sponsored by WSPD-TV & Radio. The ad features an appearance by SPeeDy ("See The World In Your Home").

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


September 24, 2019: Deep Sea Drama

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

Wednesday, 1/1/58 ad, for Sea Hunt, starring Loyd Bridges.

Monday, 1/6/58 ad, for The Tracer, sponsored by First Federal Savings and Loan.

Friday, 12/10/58 ad, for an NHL game with the Chicago Black Hawks at Detroit Red Wings, sponsored by Stroh's Beer.

There's one addition to the WJR-AM Gallery:

Thursday, 1/30/58 ad, for Arthur Godfrey's show, sponsored by Niagara.

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

Wednesday, 1/29/58 "On The Beam" item, by Ray Oviatt, about the Toledo Public Schools' WTDS-FM station director, Harry Lamb.

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

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...

September 10, 2019: The Mayflower Story

There are eleven additions today, all from November 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Sunday, 11/3/57 ad, for "The Other Van Gogh" on Telephone Time, sponsorted by Ohio Bell.

Sunday, 11/11/57 ad, for "I Get Along Without You Very Well" with Hoagy Carmichael, again on Telephone Time.

Sunday, 11/24/57 ad, for The Mayflower Story, sponsored by Willis Day Storage Co., agent for Aero-Mayflower Transit Co.

There are two ads for radio stations...

One addition to the WSPD-AM Gallery 1:

Sunday, 11/17/57 ad, for Bob Considine's Special Report, sponsored by Mutual of Omaha and the R. Kirkahm Agency.

One addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Friday, 11/22/57 ad, for High School Basketball.

There are six additions to the Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Three Saturday, 11/2/57 items from Ray Oviatt's "On the Beam" column, one about The Universirty of Toledo Hour on WSPD-TV, one about the return of The Ohio Story, also on Channel 13, and one about Toledo radio's "broadcasting brothers."

Monday, 11/4/57 picture of Susan Oliver.

Tuesday, 11/5/57 "On The Beam: item by Ray Oviatt, about UT's Rocket Choristers appearance on Ed Sullivan's show.

Thursday, 11/7/57 picture of leggy Jayne Mansfield.

Monday, 11/18/57 Thanksgiving picture of The Real McCoys star, Kathy Nolan.

Saturday, 11/23/57 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about former Toledoan Mickey Little's appearances on Ozzie and Harriet.

There's also one "other ad,"an addition to the TV-Radio ads Gallery:

Sunday, 11/17/57 ad, for Cliff Clark Hi-Fi, sponsor of Harbor Command, on WSPD-TV, Channel 13.

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

August 30, 2019: Texas Rangers in Action!

There are six additions today, all from October 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Friday, 10/18/57 ad, for All-Star Golf, sponsored by Miller High-Life Beer.

Friday, 10/18/57 ad, for Trackdown, starring Robert Culp, sponsored by Mobil Dealers.

Monday, 10/28/57 ad, for Harbor Command, sponsored by Lee Motors.

There's one addition to the WSPD-AM Gallery 1:

Friday, 10/18/57 ad, for Art and Shirl Landseadel's Down to Earth, sponsored by Secor Landscape.

And there are two additions to the Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Thursday, 10/1/57 picture of leggy Jan Sterling, who'd "Rather Be Right."

Monday, 10/28/57 front page picture of Rhonda Fleming, showing off one of her legs.,

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

August 24, 2019: Paul Harvey...Back on WTOL

There are six additions today, all from October 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There are two additions to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Tuesday, 10/1/57 ad: Attention Toledo Voters, WTOL Radio is conducting a non-partisan poll...

Thursday, 10/3/57 ad: Paul Harvey will be back on WTOL...

There's one addition to the WSPD-AM Gallery 1:

Wednesday, 10/15/57 ad, for Crisis at School, a Toledo Central Labor Union program.

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

Tuesday, 10/1/57 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, one about WWJ-TV, Channel 4 in Detroit, replacing Traffic Court and Juvenile Court with The Arbitrator, and one about National Pro Highlights on WSPD-TV, Channel 13.

Saturday, 10/12/57 picture of future Partridge Family mom Shirley Jones, in a bikini.

There's also one "other" ad:

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

Friday, 10/11/57 almost full-page ad for new Sohio Super Boron, "most powerful gasoline on the Ohio road."

More October 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

August 19, 2019: See Big Ten Football on TV!

There are seven additions today, all from September 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There's one addition to the WSPD-TV 13 Ads Gallery 3:

Thursday, 9/2/57 ad, for Big Ten Football Highlights, sponsored by Pure Oil.

There are three additions to the WTOD-WKKO Gallery:

Thursday, 9/12/57 ad: Listen! to the best in Music, News and Sports..."Toledo's Home Station."

Friday, 9/13/57 ad: Telling You! Everybody is talking about the New Programs on WTOD...

Wednesday, 9/25/57 ad: Another Listen to the best in Music, News and Sports...

There's one addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Saturday, 9/14/57 ad, for Toledo's Mobile Home Show at Westgate Shopping Center, sponsored by the Mobile Homes Manufactureres Association with coverage on WTOL-AM.

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

Tuesday, 9/17/57 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, including the headline item, "TV Schedules 25 Football Games" and an item about radio news concerning WJR-AM, WMIC-AM and WABJ-AM.

Thursday, 9/19/57 item, again by Ray Oviatt, about Johnny Darro joining the staff of WOHO-AM.

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

August 12, 2019: Gee! Have You Heard The New WTOD?

August 5, 2019: Full Living Color

There are six additions today, all from August 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There's one addition to the WSPD-TV 13 Ads Gallery 3:

Thursday, 8/22/57 ad, for "The Stranger Within" on Climax!, starring George Nader, Rita Moreno, Charles Korvin, Kathleen Crowley, and Regis Toomey. It was sponsored by Chrysler.

There are two radio station ads...

One addition to the Other Radio Stations/Networks Gallery:

Friday, 8/9/57 ad for WTLG's General Electric Giant Giveaway.

One addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Friday, 8/23/57 Johnson Ford Sales ad, for Joe Weaver's Saturday Morning show.

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

Friday, 8/30/57 story, "Bowling Green Pair Wed on Television," about Tom Armstrong and Sue Wright getting married on the CBS show, Bride and Groom.

There are two more "other" ads...

One addition to the TV-Radio ads Gallery:

Wednesday, 8/21/57 Blue Line Appliance ad, for RCA Victor Color TV. The only color show in the listings that night was the TV Theater presentation of "Ride Into Danger" at 8:00 on Detroit's channel 4.

One addition to the Utilities Gallery:

Saturday, 8/24/57 Ohio Bell Telephone Company ad (Tomorrow...60,000 Toledo Telephone Numbers change...)

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

July 29, 1957: Dick the Bruiser vs. Ivan Rasputin

There are eleven additions today, all from July 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Thursday, 7/11/57 ad, for Rod Cameron in State Trooper. sponsored by Red & White Super Marlets.

Saturday, 7/13/57 ad, for Wrestling, featuring Billy Darnell vs. Hans Hierman, Dick the Bruiser vs. Ivan Rasputin, and Len Rossie vs. Great Yamato, presented by The Bargain Mart and the Four Big Bargain Barns.

Friday, 7/19/57 ad, for The New Adventures of Martin Kane, starring William Gargan, sponsored by Toledo Edison.

There are four additions to the Other Radio Stations/Networks Gallery:

Three of them are for WTLG-AM 730:

Monday, 7/1/57 ad (Watch The Sky Tomorrow!)

Wednesday, 7/10/57 ad (Thank You Toledo)

Tuesday, 7/30/57 ad (Another Giant Give-Away)

Thursday, 7/18/57 ad, for WFIN-AM in Findlay (Hear your Boy Scouts...from Valley Forge...)

There's one addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Saturday, 7/13/57 ad, for the Don Greiner Accordion School's Sunday morning show which featured performnce's by their students.

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

Saturday, 7/8/57 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about new ABC show Maverick, which was to be partially sponsored by the Toledo-made Jeep.

Tuesday, 7/30/57 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, again, this time about the Joe Gillis show on WTOD-AM, and about Michighan Outdoors on Detroit's WWJ-TV, Channel 4.

There's also one "other" ad, an addition to the Auto Service-Parts-Repair Gallery:

Monday, 7/8/57 ad, for Sohio Super Boron gasoline (The feel of fun!...smoothest power you can buy!)

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

July 15, 2019: Can Toledo Do It Again?

There are seven additions today, all from June 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Wednesday, 6/5/57 ad, with Jack Benny for Date With the Angels, starring Betty White.

Thursday, 6/6/57 ad, for Silent Service, sponsored by United Savings.

Wednesday, 6/12/57 ad, with Ralph Edwards for Date With the Angels, starring Betty White.

Saturday, 6/29/57 ad, for Silver Dollar Quiz, with Toledoan C. Gordon Stratham.

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

Thursday, 6/6/57 "On The Beam" story by Ray Oviatt, "Golf Meet Blacked Out in Host City?"

Saturday, 6/22/57 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, "Radio Stations Make News Notes," about WTRT-FM and Bowling Green's WTLG.

There's also one "other" ad, an addition to the Blade & Other Periodicals ads Gallery:

Monday, 6/6/57 full-page public service ad featuring Amber, the safety elephant (Children should be seen...not hurt!...Caution keeps children alive!).

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

July 6, 2019: Club Polka

There are seven additions today, all from May 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Saturday, 5/4/57 ad, for The Kate Smith Hour, sponsored by Youngstown Kitchens, a division of American-Standard. Her guests included Edgar Bergen, Ed Wynn, Boris Karloff and Benny Goodman.

Sunday, 5/28/57 ad, for TheTelephone Time presentation of "Again the Stars," presented by Ohio Bell. There is a YouTube Video of that show.

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

Thursday, 5/9/57 ad, for Club Polka on WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, sponsored by E&B Kroyzend Beer.

There are two ads for radio programs...

One addition to the WSPD-AM Gallery 1:

Saturday, 5/11/57 ad, for Jim Uebelhart's Preview of Tomorrow, sponsored by Beltone Hearing Glasses.

One addition to the Other Radio Stations/Networks Gallery:

Saturday, 5/11/57 ad, for How Chrisian Science Heals, a religious program heard on WTOD-AM, CKLW-AM, and WTOL-AM, and seen on Cleveland's WJW-TV, Channel 8 and Detroit's WXYZ-TV, Channel 7.

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

Friday, 5/3/57 story, "WJR Has Special Anniversary Program." The show was entitled "35 Eventful Years."

Wednesday, 5/28/57 picture of "Real American Beauty" Cyd Charisse.

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

June 28, 2019: One Weak Tube Can Spoil Your TV Fun with Groucho

There are seven additions today, all from April 1957 editions of The Toledo Blade.

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

Tuesday, 4/2/57 ad, for Dr. Hudon's Secret Journal, sponsored by Drewrys Beer.

Monday, 4/8/57 Westinghouse ad, for Studio One, where you could see the famous Westinghouse "Sand Test." The ad includes a list of Toledo area appliance dealers.

There are two ads for radio programs...

One addition to the Other Radio Stations/Networks Gallery:

Monday, 4/1/57 ad, for Congressman Lud Ashley's Report on Washington, heard on three Toledo AM stations, WSPD, WTOL, and WTOD.

One addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Monday, 4/15/57 ad, for Cleveland Indians Baseball (vs. Chicago White Sox) The ad includes a list of seven sponsors.

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

Tuesday, 4/7/57 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about the new Danny Thomas show, on CBS.

Saturday, 4/6/57 "On The Beam" item by Ray Oviatt, about WOHO disc jockey Jack Gibson, leaving for Texas.

There's one "Other" ad, an addition to the TV-Radio ads Gallery:

Monday, 4/8/57 ad, with Groucho Marx, for GE tubes, for TV sets. The ad includes a list of eleven Toledo area TV sales and repair shops.

More 1957 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...