Young Steve Austin playing stickball with Ed Norton

[mego73]

I've noted this for a while but it's been a while since I have seen the episode.

In the Honeymooners classic 39 episode "A Matter Of Record" Norton has a stickball team with the kids in the apartment house.

One of the kids on the team is named Steve Austin.

I wonder if the Steve Austin of Six Million Dollar Man ever mentioned if he grew up in an apartment house in Brooklyn with 2 kooky neighbors by the name of Norton and Ralph?

[Megotu]

According to the series, he grew up in Ojai, CA.

[Mikey]

Matter of Record ?

Is that the "old buttercup" episode ?

I GOT A BIG MOUTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mego73]

Matter of Record ?

Is that the "old buttercup" episode ?

I GOT A BIG MOUTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the one. It makes me actually wonder if they had records that could be recorded on by a home machine in the 1950's.

[Mikey]

That's the one. It makes me actually wonder if they had records that could be recorded on by a home machine in the 1950's.

I'm almost positive they did.

I remember a few years ago watching this episode and looking it up on the net.

I think home recorder record players were actually introduced in the 1940's, but they were really huge --- like the size of an old copy machine.

By the 50's they were a lot smaller -- like Norton's