One more reason to be glad I'm pretty old: I listened to "Vic and Sade." It was one of the most popular radio shows back in the day. It wasn't a dramatic soap opera. Just Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gook (rhymes with book) and young son Rush talking about their daily lives and the colorful characters they knew. Nothing of great consequence, no drama. Brilliantly written with great humor, perfectly cast and performed, it was wildly popular and got lots of awards. The estimated number of listeners in 1943 was seven million. The Gooks lived in "the small house half-way up the next block." That's how the show started each day.
Looking back, thinking about what made it such a big hit, maybe you would need to have lived during the 30s and 40s to understand why we loved it. For escapism radio gave us the same fare we have on TV today. Soap operas, crime show, drama, sports, music and variety. But when we needed something we could relate to and laugh along with , Vic and Sade filled the bill. It was a sweet, simple time for a great many Americans. We really lived like that, sitting on the front porch and going over the day's events.
There are many old time radio fans not old enough to have experienced it as I did. I wonder what they have to say about Vic and Sade,
I am real pleased to find several online groups and blogs dedicated to Vic and Sade. This is my favorite: http://vicandsade.blogspot.com
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