Various notes

The town of Normal was so named because the education there was "normal" - I kid you not.

That's ironic because Vic and Sade's world is often portrayed in reviews/newspapers/magazines as being "average" or "normal" when in fact, it's very much "anormal."

When choosing a mascot for the Normal Independent League, (they settled on "Cornbelters") one of the entries in contention was the Nutz (Normal Nutz.)  Now that sounds like Vic and Sade.

I'd really like to speak with some "Normalites" (or those from Bloomington) and see what they know about Vic and Sade.  Maybe one day.

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Here are a couple of photos of the courthouse; the first is a recent photo...

(Below) Here's a much earlier photo, probably turn-of-the century.  The courthouse is on the left, barely visible.  Notice the grass?  The grass is important in Vic and Sade and I'm sure you know why.

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In this episode, Proctor and Gamble offered a map as a premium.  It's not a great photo, nor is it complete, but here's part of what the envelope looked like:

Did P&G actually give transcriptions to WWII scrap drive?

Bill Idelson, who was pretty upset at P&G for destroying the transcription disks of Vic and Sade material, seems to avoid something that was brought up on a show I heard (where he was not a guest.) A talk show claimed the transcription disks from P&G were made of metal (which transcription disks sometimes were) and were not "destroyed" so much as given up in a World War II scrap drive - oddly enough, Idelson starred in a Vic and Sade show about the scrap drive during the war. How's that for irony. Idelson did say in an interview that a full week's worth of disks were saved of the show. Here's guessing this was from 1944, when we have all the Mis' Keller-Harry Feedburn about to get married episodes. And Rush is not even on the series then. Wonk, wonk, wonk.