Friday, July 09, 2021

Random Newspaper Clippings From My Old Hometown

I'm still compiling the ads for every movie that played the Martin Theatre in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and if that wasn't enough I decided to add the crosstown theater Cinema One. I'm up to 1978 which means 10 more years on the Martin until it became Carmike and quite a few more until the Cinema shut down for good. Hence, so few posts lately. As I go through the old newspapers I end up finding other oddball items or interesting things. For example: Burt Ward dressed as Robin appeared at the University Ford dealership for a whole week in the afternoons signing autographs. A domestic squabble spilled over into the local Big K store in Memorial Village and only ended after a lady shot a guy who died at the hospital later. She was shooting wildly and it was lucky that no others were injured. 

So here's some random newspaper clippings. It's mainly ads. Enjoy. 

January 18, 1978

Burt Ward audition 1965

Roses ad December 26, 1977

Clarks department store ad December 11, 1980

Wal-Mart ad October 17, 1982


Fisher's store Levi's promotion June 12, 1966

December 31, 1981 LSD Peanuts characters

September 26, 1976 

Gabe Kaplan and Robert Reed in Doubles ad November 30, 1986

April 12, 1981

December 9, 1976

fan made trailer for The Grim Reaper