Omg!!! Can you imagine this scene being written today???? Jackie Gleason grew up in NY at 328 Chauncey Street, Apartment 1A (an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners. After his father abandoned the family, young Jackie began hanging around with a local gang, hustling pool. He was 19 when his mother died in 1935 from complications of sepsis. He had nowhere to go and 36 cents to his name. The family of his first girlfriend, Julie Dennehy, offered to take him in; he,