Passing Parade: When we were young

Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist One of the mainstays of early sitcoms was the “Honeymooners.” Featured were two blue-collar friends, Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden and Art Carney as Ed Norton. Their get-rich-quick schemes and their exasperated, but ultimately forgiving, wives, Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden and Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton, played their opposites. Gleason portrayed Ralph Kramden, a bus driver and blowhard, forever conjuring half-baked plans to escape his dingy ap