Very rare: ad for The Whistler

Rare Mix. Tom, that is!

I have never seen a Tom Mix newspaper ad - until now.

1949

Double trouble: 'The Shadow' with 2 guns

Again - if he's invisible, how can we see this ad?

Rare commercial left in I Was a Communist For the FBI

Until yesterday, I had never heard a commercial in the fantastic I Was a Communist For the FBI.

The show was syndicated - but this appears to be the original commercial left in.  This copy of the show was probably recorded somewhere out West (Seattle perhaps) as the commercial is for Rainier Ale.

(The clip will start a few seconds after you press 'play')





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Does Paula Winslowe sing the Pabst Blue Ribbon commercial?

For years I have thought Paula Winslowe was the singer on the Pabst Blue Ribbon sponsored Life of Riley program - especially since the commercial only appears on  the Life of Riley program (to my knowledge.)

Decide for yourself.  






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14 different double-paged CBS ads

Odd ads that don't fit anywhere else!

Click to enlarge (This is pretty unusual, circa 1940)

I wonder who thought up the little poem for this?

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Learn something new every day

First, another really cool ad from CBS Radio (I love these) with it's caricature drawings.

Lo and behold, there is Dick York, someone who I never knew was on radio! He played on a show called, That Brewster Boy - a show I have never heard before, until now.

He's not on this episode but it's an example of the show. No known episodes exist with Dick York as That Brewster Boy.

And here's a photo of Dick York. He played Darren (the first one as there were 2 different ones) on tv's Bewitched. And come to think of it, his mother-in-law was played by radio stalwart Agnes Moorehead.

Dick York

One of these is not like the others

Ozzie & Harriet?  Hmmm.  What is up with that?

Super cool! NBC ad dump

ABC ad dump

Basil Rathbone and Fatima 'cigarets' ad dump

A holiday basketful of old radio advertisements