After Thanksgiving Dinner at 5 Ninth Avenue in 1987

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  • Опубліковано 3 лип 2017
  • Larry Tee, Lahoma and RuPaul had just arrived from Atlanta -surviving a harrowing flip of their van somewhere near Heritage USA in the Carolinas. They were very thankful for getting through the wreck unscathed and for getting to share the townhouse with Nelson. This video takes place after dinner when the gang left to go to a Michael Alig Party at Tunnel. Video by Nelson Sullivan.
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  • @ErinAsh23
    @ErinAsh23 4 роки тому +35

    I know Nelson is gone, but his videos have a special place in my heart ❤️

    • @nymike06
      @nymike06 4 роки тому +4

      I agree. They're very good.

  • @blahblah1438
    @blahblah1438 5 років тому +56

    I feel like Nelson is my friend. It's the strangest thing

    • @Akenaten1
      @Akenaten1 5 років тому +5

      Diane B me too he is just adorable!

    • @AMARS11663
      @AMARS11663 4 роки тому +5

      Mine too

    • @nelsonsullivanhd9908
      @nelsonsullivanhd9908 2 роки тому +1

      I think that's the number 1 thing everyone feels after watching some of his videos, that's the 'thing' he had.

  • @tpuckettjr
    @tpuckettjr 7 років тому +175

    Who else wishes they were right here with them in 1987?

    • @aviratica6370
      @aviratica6370 7 років тому +5

      Hell yes, would have just turned 21!

    • @basil33
      @basil33 6 років тому +3

      This was my first thanksgiving lol. Somewhere in Brooklyn 👶🏼

    • @weedandwine
      @weedandwine 6 років тому +3

      Was that age and lifestyle in those years. I'm kinda glad I'm out of that. But it's cool to reflect on though.

    • @Aiasem
      @Aiasem 6 років тому +1

      Me

    • @goldleaf889
      @goldleaf889 5 років тому +1

      me me me me me me!!!!

  • @Skaterbun
    @Skaterbun 7 років тому +44

    thanks for continuing to upload Nelsons videos. He has some old and new fans out there who appreciate this. what you have here is a real legacy.

  • @Heramitep
    @Heramitep 7 років тому +37

    Someone forgot the cake haha. I get to visit 5 Ninth Avenue when I travel to New York from the UK in August! I'm so excited! I've been watching these videos for years and it will be surreal getting to see and visit the area and place where Nelson lived!

    • @rebellefleur435
      @rebellefleur435 6 років тому +13

      Heramitep ha! Omg and you actually did! I just watched your video visiting his place!

    • @jennytaylor4165
      @jennytaylor4165 6 років тому +4

      Me too!

  • @brucewebb1114
    @brucewebb1114 11 місяців тому +2

    They are conversing and enjoying each other's company. I miss those days. In 1987 I was in Bossier City, Louisiana. I believe I was working for Albertsons. I like to visit Nelson's videos and enjoy the sounds of people talking. A much simpler time when folks actually read a hard copy newspaper. Thanks for these videos.

  • @Charlesbjtown
    @Charlesbjtown 5 років тому +19

    Blackout lurking in the shadows. Love that dog, and I don't even know why.

  • @sammavacaist
    @sammavacaist 3 роки тому +8

    I'm so invested in this man's life now.

  • @FerenswayRecords
    @FerenswayRecords 3 роки тому +10

    Nelson's place was beautiful.

  • @rhymeandreasoning
    @rhymeandreasoning 6 років тому +21

    These videos of Nelson's are beyond brilliant. I come and watch them over and over and over. Great footage. Thank you for posting these.

  • @joogabelly9255
    @joogabelly9255 7 років тому +33

    RIP Nelson

  • @JayJayFromAZ
    @JayJayFromAZ 4 роки тому +22

    I am a straight dude but I can't stop watching Nelson's vlogs...LOL

    • @fluffyhead6377
      @fluffyhead6377 2 роки тому +1

      Are you sure you are straight? Only gays can see these videos.

    • @lcpd3311
      @lcpd3311 2 роки тому +4

      Same haha

    • @Antny.25
      @Antny.25 Рік тому

      @@fluffyhead6377 the *sarcasm* lol

  • @aimeeglatt2713
    @aimeeglatt2713 5 років тому +43

    Ru Paul talking about turkey tacos with avocado is everything I need and more. 🌈

  • @CybermanBill
    @CybermanBill 7 років тому +13

    #RIPNelsonSullivan
    Thanks for everything and being nice to a know it all kid! Miss ya!

    • @timwilson4772
      @timwilson4772 6 років тому +2

      Cyberman Bill were you his friend or a clubkid?

    • @harrymonk6
      @harrymonk6 5 років тому

      Nelson was a druggie bastard everyone who lived there knows this!

    • @rocknroller77
      @rocknroller77 4 роки тому +1

      Harry Monk ok Harry, what's really going on? I see you post on other videos on this channel, stating you "dont have anything against Nelson. He seemed like a decent guy." Only that you had thought he hung around the wrong people. Like you posted on the Christmas party, (at the obvious douche, Alig), party. Now you're here disparaging Nelson himself. Why the change in your view of Nelson. I think your first analysis on him in the Christmas comment section was pretty spot on. He was a good man, that hung out with the wrong crowd.

  • @Thomas-fu8vp
    @Thomas-fu8vp 4 роки тому +13

    If you are maybe under 35-40 years these videos are probably amusing+. For those of us who lived these times it can be overwhelmingly sad reliving these times.

    • @mrmikeyd2
      @mrmikeyd2 4 роки тому +3

      I'm sorry but I have to disagree.....although in the mid 80's I was in Kansas City, these videos remind me so much of that time when I was almost too old to be young but too young to be old (in 87 I was 33) and we all ran in packs.....it really makes me believe even more than ever that being gay was almost universal in the way we valued our friendships and it seems like we did even more at the dawn of the AIDS crisis...we knew something was trying to get us but didn't know exactly what it was and just held each other tighter.

    • @GohAhweh
      @GohAhweh 2 роки тому

      I feel Melancholy and lucky to be alive.. What a fabulous time it was

  • @optout130
    @optout130 2 роки тому +5

    "A Hundred More Thanksgivings!"
    Most Should Be So Lucky 😢

  • @epipd5712
    @epipd5712 5 років тому +12

    RuPaul had that personality going on as she does now. Loved her talking about Turkey Tacos with Avocado..You ever have those? ...hehe

  • @brucealexanderexiniaruizru1830
    @brucealexanderexiniaruizru1830 3 роки тому +1

    Found this guy from the PRIDE series and IM OBSESSED and Ru Ru OMG!!! Can’t get enough!!!

  • @courtneylangford1751
    @courtneylangford1751 4 роки тому +21

    I'm obsessed with NY in the 80's. These videos make my life 🥰 Especially in this 2020 Covid BS 🙄

    • @BigLee93
      @BigLee93 3 роки тому

      Rhyming stinking like a girl's poo poo

    • @evanstravelchannel4905
      @evanstravelchannel4905 2 роки тому +2

      I'm also obsessed with NY in the 80's! I love the grit.

  • @manmelt4037
    @manmelt4037 5 років тому +12

    I love Lahoma so much

  • @raymondsolisjr.1262
    @raymondsolisjr.1262 3 роки тому +8

    I would have loved to have been in Nelson's inner circle

  • @torodin7819
    @torodin7819 4 роки тому +6

    That van is just epic

  • @upnorthcountrygirl3127
    @upnorthcountrygirl3127 2 роки тому +2

    I’m really growing on Nelson he’s a amazing person true friend to his people I like him ❤️❤️

    • @johnreid8115
      @johnreid8115 2 роки тому

      I agree. It was nice to see RuPaul talking to James St. James about Nelson.

  • @WilliamByronIs
    @WilliamByronIs 7 років тому +25

    "The passengers look like they're on crack!"
    "Well, the passengers look like they're from France or Europe."

  • @mary-janegreen1513
    @mary-janegreen1513 Рік тому +2

    Watching these videos kind of makes me sad that I did not record all of my fun experiences going out in my teens/early 20s.. I know I was just living in the moment but how nice it would be to have memories like this to watch back on.

  • @wanya_telborn
    @wanya_telborn 2 місяці тому

    Nelson had a wonderful group of friends and family what an amazing life and his pets too 😊❤and when all out together in the city they did appear to be safe for the most part
    Nice to see people just living and being safe ❤❤❤❤gosh I miss those times before screens

  • @nikkisinclaire4185
    @nikkisinclaire4185 2 роки тому +2

    Special time, special people

  • @friendlier
    @friendlier Рік тому +3

    "The passengers are on crack."
    "They look like they're from France."
    😂

    • @jrd3523
      @jrd3523 3 місяці тому

      He says "They look like they're from Europe" not from France.

  • @Lypno
    @Lypno 7 років тому +27

    I love the atmosphere emanating from these vlogs. Its very inspiring. T h a n k y o u

  • @tturner12341
    @tturner12341 3 роки тому +2

    Restore these videos... I find them absolutely amazing. I wish I knew all of them. I would of fit right in. Except everyone would of wanted to sleep with me.

  • @genesis8284
    @genesis8284 Рік тому +1

    Oh my gosh Ru is here too. And this video only has 18k views…..A young Rupaul on Thanksgiving. I’m dying to know if she remembers this Thanksgiving dinner with Nelson ❤️

  • @sw_fit50s
    @sw_fit50s 5 років тому +4

    Ru sure is famous now 🙌🏼💕🌟

  • @SP-free
    @SP-free 6 років тому +10

    Meanwhile, at the Straight Thanksgiving.

  • @HollywoodCreeper
    @HollywoodCreeper 5 років тому +15

    This video is soul redeeming and refreshing. You can see the steak house on 14th Street across from where the Apple Store is now. Mentioning Apple is a buzz kill though. You see where the problem is today? Things like Apple. You can see Prince lumber, where it was until recently where everything that was kind of too big of a lot got taken like The McDonalds on 10th Ave and that really good diner like around 43rd and 10th, and some other things like that. You can also see the Manhattan Mini storage that is still there. I think you can see the one by Chelsea Piers. We, as a people, have been so negatively affected by computers and all that garbage like cell phones and reality tv and identity politics. The Rupaul of 1987 was completely different to the one of 2018.

    • @kellyv6075
      @kellyv6075 5 років тому +3

      Technology is allowing you to watch this

    • @sammavacaist
      @sammavacaist 3 роки тому

      Old Homestead. 😊 Still rocking as of now.

  • @thecapricorn11
    @thecapricorn11 3 роки тому +4

    that chevy van was on its last legs

  • @tonymanero1015
    @tonymanero1015 2 роки тому

    1018 was the place back then always jam packed!!!

  • @brooke6286
    @brooke6286 Рік тому +2

    This video and that toast are especially poignant because Nelson only got one more Thanksgiving after this... 🥺❤️

    • @630unc
      @630unc 6 місяців тому

      No he didn't he got Thanksgiving of that year 87 and then 88 Nelson passed 4th of July 89.

  • @raymondvildosola2739
    @raymondvildosola2739 25 днів тому

    It's been 36 Thanksgivings since then ❤

  • @shanibloome
    @shanibloome 3 роки тому +1

    So much fun to be had!

  • @b.a.brackus6371
    @b.a.brackus6371 3 роки тому +4

    The high cost of low living..

  • @CybermanBill
    @CybermanBill 7 років тому +27

    It's amazing to me how much the meat packing district had changed!! How much NY has changed. It's lost its edge that it once had... at least I think. When I used to go to NY around this time period there was just something to the city that's gone today. To homogenized!

    • @lendalee2451
      @lendalee2451 4 роки тому +1

      Well for one it's clean and newer buildings and it's got a whole lot of rich people now not just Trump Tower cause Ru could see the Trump Tower from his apartment there is a video of Th at his apartment point out at Trumps building but now New York is full of Rich people and rich buildings that cost a lot to live in now !

  • @aimeeglatt2713
    @aimeeglatt2713 5 років тому +9

    You'll never snag your wig like that again. 😂

  • @michaelmorin6235
    @michaelmorin6235 8 годин тому

    Love this

  • @madtingz2288
    @madtingz2288 5 років тому +8

    Ru Paul was so charming

  • @eggthegarden
    @eggthegarden 3 роки тому +3

    ugh i wish i met him

    • @BigLee93
      @BigLee93 3 роки тому

      You look like Charlize Theron

  • @towerofresonance4877
    @towerofresonance4877 2 роки тому +2

    Back when Nelson COULD enjoy champagne 😔

  • @M83-AWOL
    @M83-AWOL 2 місяці тому

    Damn, Nelson had only 1 more thanksgiving left. So sad.

  • @22lilacsky
    @22lilacsky 5 років тому +6

    What people don't realize is that there is not such thing as sex on the other side. I think we all are gay, yes even my own mother I told her this and my theory is that whatever we are attracted to on the other side is also attracted here. I mean who makes up the rules anyway of attraction and the raw nature of human beings.

  • @blahblah1438
    @blahblah1438 5 років тому +3

    I must be lonely

  • @goldleaf889
    @goldleaf889 5 років тому +4

    @4:56 Yeah dope is ok but not liquor lol... Nelson liked to smoke more than drink

  • @Mylo12321
    @Mylo12321 5 років тому +9

    These videos makes me wish I was a gay man in the 80’s NYC.

    • @blahblah1438
      @blahblah1438 5 років тому +4

      Mel Thom me too and I'm a straight woman LOL

    • @Mylo12321
      @Mylo12321 5 років тому +2

      Diane B Same!!!! I’m so jealous of Rhonda too. Lol. She must have had the best time with all of them.

    • @TS-qq7vr
      @TS-qq7vr 4 роки тому +1

      How does your butt feel about that?

    • @nymike06
      @nymike06 4 роки тому +1

      @@Mylo12321 Rhonda was hot!

  • @knitterscheidt
    @knitterscheidt 4 роки тому

    not Rockwell's Freedom From Want...for that I'm thankful!

  • @blueberry2690
    @blueberry2690 5 років тому +2

    Eeee,it looks like the back doors of the truck are broken! Like there tied closed lol n there just riding back there lol

    • @ricobaldridge9144
      @ricobaldridge9144 3 роки тому +3

      Yeah they rolled it on its side coming
      Up from Georgia. Larry t Rupaul and
      Lahoma. Its surprising no one got hurt. In one video they arrived to the house and talked about it

  • @tturner12341
    @tturner12341 3 роки тому +1

    They were definitely not into to music back then. I lived for music. I still do to this day. But we have Spotify and Sirius/XM radio these days. But, I used to throw the best parties in Detroit in the 80’s and 90’s. But, not to brag but I was the hottest guy in all of metro Detroit. The good old days.

  • @mozwildeful
    @mozwildeful Рік тому

    Is that Brant with short hair?

  • @suzienada7253
    @suzienada7253 3 роки тому

    "i would pay $20 not to have to walk back." girl been there its worth it

  • @dennybenz5846
    @dennybenz5846 7 років тому +5

    Is Nelson's house still there?

    • @torodin7819
      @torodin7819 4 роки тому +3

      Its a art galery, on the top its all Nelson

  • @joestocking
    @joestocking 4 роки тому +4

    Turkey Tacos. 😋

  • @AndrewsArchives
    @AndrewsArchives 2 місяці тому

    "The passengers are probably on crack."
    "They look like they're from Europe"

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey 11 місяців тому +1

    So sad they had to leave Blackout at home but Nelson really cares about him.

  • @respecttheface7152
    @respecttheface7152 5 років тому +4

    Rent was affordable

    • @nymike06
      @nymike06 4 роки тому

      Great observation. Nowadays, it's way different here in NYC.

  • @respecttheface7152
    @respecttheface7152 5 років тому +4

    Ru Paul Networth ? Anyone

    • @nifrued89
      @nifrued89 5 років тому +2

      Respect The Face 13 million

  • @meetmeinva
    @meetmeinva 3 роки тому

    Why’s it so dark there?

    • @BigLee93
      @BigLee93 3 роки тому +3

      Because it was night time

    • @keithnichols7926
      @keithnichols7926 Рік тому +2

      And the video cameras of that era did not do well when bright lights and darkness existed in the same frame.

  • @teeniebeenie8774
    @teeniebeenie8774 3 роки тому +3

    ru alwys mooching food, booze and ideas....

  • @darayounce8775
    @darayounce8775 4 роки тому +2

    NELSON KNEW RUPAUL???

    • @TechGorilla1987
      @TechGorilla1987 4 роки тому +4

      Hung out regularly apparently. Also, Ru helped take care of Blackout.

  • @pablom7213
    @pablom7213 3 роки тому +1

    Rupaul reminds me of Dave Chappelle

  • @mauricethomas2252
    @mauricethomas2252 5 років тому +2

    GUCCI

  • @tturner12341
    @tturner12341 3 роки тому

    Was that a Uber?

  • @beaulocon996
    @beaulocon996 4 роки тому +1

    Norman Rockwell, Lust For Life. Looks like Lana Del Rey missed her generation.

  • @deemarlin
    @deemarlin 9 місяців тому

    RUPAUL REALLY FORGOT WHERE HE CAME FROM HE COULD REALLY MAKE A BEAUTIFUL DOC ABOUT THIS TIME AND NELSON!!!!!

    • @queenrc4372
      @queenrc4372 3 місяці тому

      I totally agree.You know what they say about some whom made it big sometimes forget where they came from while remaining humble.💯🙏🏽💪🏽

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey 11 місяців тому

    Those French people could never guess they would end up in one of Nelson's films.