November 29, 2015: The Perfect Holiday Gift

There are eight more ads today, from November and December 1996 editions of The Blade, all additions to the Christmas and New Year's Ads gallery. There's a Friday, 11/15/96 ad for Santa's arrival at Woodville Mall (A most wonderful time of the year...Santa's helpers breakfast). Next is a Wednesday, 11/20/96 ad for Food Town's International Festival of Lights at International Park. Other sponsors included Fox 36 and Toledo Edison. There's also a Thursday, 11/21/96 ad for Southwyck Shopping Center (Ho! Ho! Ho! Look who's coming to Southwyck! Join Jo Jo and Foop the Clown as they welcome Santa Claus!). There's a Saturday, 11/30/96 ad for the Children's Wonderland Coloring Contest, brought to you by The Blade, Fox 36, Video Connection, and MidAm Bank, followed by a Tuesday, 12/3/96 ad for Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey on the Family Channel. Next is a Saturday, 12/7/96 ad for the Disney Channel (The Perfect Holiday Gift!), followed by a Sunday, 12/8/96 half-page ad for COSI memebrships at Kroger (Great Gift Idea), and a Tuesday, 12/10/96 ad for Marty's Christmas Party (Marty Stuart) on TNN, the first of three TNN holiday ads, today. There's a Saturday, 12/14/96 full-page ad for Access Toledo, with Santa Claus (Surf on our Turf), followed by two Sunday, 12/15/96 ads, a Second News Section ad for subscriptions to The Blade (Act now and bring The King home for Christmas, darlin!), followed by a Business Section full-page ad for Coca Cola at Cub Foods. Next you'll find a Monday, 12/16/98 ad for First Night Toledo 1997 (Celebrate! New Year's Eve Downtown), followed by a Tuesday, 12/17/98 ad, for A Sam's Place Christmas on TNN, and a Wednesday, 12/18/96 full-page ad for two Buckeye CableSystem channels, TLC and PASS (Just in time for 1997...Happy Holidays). There's also a Monday, 12/23/96 ad for the movie "A Christmas Carol" on AMC, followed by a Tuesday, 12/24/96 full-page ad (Season's Greetings of the Season. The owners and employees of The Blade wish you the happiest of holidays, and a joyful prosperous New Year), and a Sunday, 12/29/96 full-page ad for Dish Network (4 Neckties, 3 Par of Socks, 2 Turtlenecks...There's still time to call DISH Network!). Today's last ad is the third one for TNN, a Tuesday, 12/31/96 ad for New Year's Eve at Sea World Live (Wynonna Judd).

More holiday ads, from November 22 - December 5, 1997 issues of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...