Block Communications
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Block Communications Inc. is an American privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio. The company was founded in 1900 in New York C
Logo of Block/Blade Communications
The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)
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The Blade, also known as the Toledo Blade, is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications. The newspaper was first published on December
Block Communications
…the Great Depression in the 1930s came the loss of all but three properties: the ad representation firm, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Toledo Blade (where Block eventually settled the company upon its purchase in 1927). After Block's death in 1941, his children took over the company. They eventually…
The July 27, 2005, front page of The Blade
Toledo Blade in 1868 ad from Scott's Annual Toledo City Directory
Toledo Blade Newsboys, 1900s
A Toledo Blade delivery vehicle in Bowling Green, Ohio.