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Steve Austin’s signature accessory is colorful hats, which he wears in all of his videos.
OLDIE BUT A GOODIE The life of an 83-year-old TikTok sensation ›
Interview by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by EMIL LIPPE
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t was back last October, I believe it was. We was going to hold a tent service off at this college town, and we got there about dinner time on Saturday. Different ones of us thought that we ought to get us a mouthful to eat before we set up the tent.” So go the opening lines of Andy Griffith’s monologue
14 lakewood.advocatemag.com FEBRUARY 2022
“What it Was, Was Football.” Some might have heard the actor deliver it on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1954, or maybe they bought the record in 1953. Some might have never heard it at all. But others might have heard it from Woodrow Wilson alumnus Steve Austin. Back in his high school days, Austin was a record
