Each week i wait for Friday 5 pm to punch out and start watching these😄 Flashbacks to my past clubbing & raving days

@@guybrushthreepwood3054 Were you part of the NY club scene of that time too, or do you mean it just reminds you of your own raving days?

@KarlSnarks haha no, just my own experience in mid 90s Europe

I have a feeling that a LOT of younger people watch these like they are at Studio 54 in 1978. Also; some people missed this scene by only 5 or 10 years. Others by 40 years. I was about 27/ 28 in 1989 and was in the city a lot BUT I was not "clubbing" because I was more into Rock not disco. I was also in the closet. @@KarlSnarks

Nope, me too

It's my new favourite. I watch videos everyday.

Like fr i keep coming back

Cannot stop watching! 🤭

This abyssal void is fascinating me !

It truly is breathtaking.

I love her she’s a doll she my favorite

I love her too. Is she still around?

I wonder if Lahoma is from Oklahoma

Forrest Cain I asked Lady Bunny on Twitter and she told me Lahoma quit drag and is a editor for a wine magazine now. His male name is John Witherspoon

literally!! lmfaooo

Agree, it was super cringe. Lahoma's face in the room, lol...

No joke

I'm glad Nelson never saw the Towers come down to me, I think it would have broken his spirit

@Konga 5000 nope not really. He od’d yesterday

@Konga 5000 nope, he overdosed on dope and died xmas eve 2020.

What's missing?

Theres close to 600 tapes. If I could find them on a dvd set collection I would love to own it.

@@JB-zo7ln I thought they were given to a university? NYU perhaps? The Retro Room channel has some info on where those tapes ended up.

@@kekwayblaze3176 I know that Dick Richards was the one uploading 5ninthavenueproject before he died. World of Wonder also had access to the videos at one time too, but I think they are now archived in the NYU library like you said. And Retro room is a pretty good source for facts so if he said it I wouldn't doubt they are there.

@@JB-zo7ln I wish someone would get definitive word on what happened to reportedly hundreds of hours of these home movies Nelson made, like are they all archived in the NYU library now never to see public release.

That's the thing; he was. They all are. They knew it, hence the fantasy escapism. Disco in the 70s was the same thing.

necessitousfox julie Jules is SMOKIN!!!!

This is when I started “clubbing” and you’re right. Everyone just trying to be cool & look like they belonged.

Nail on the head

I dont agree with that I think a lot of them look a lot more happy than most of the people in clubs today

@@perry5509 I agree. They at least lived in the moment back then. No smartphones or social media distractions.

Yes! I also miss Christine! Her art. Her staircase. Her accent. Her everything! ❤

@@martevanderzee7440 yea I'm sure you do from what watching her on KZfaq 💯

He was a man ahead of his time

Why?

Was this post drugs or before?

He's a prick.

Nobody can 🤦🏻‍♀️

He thought he was the shit but really, he was just shit lol

I kinda adore him

Even his name annoys me.

Haha yeahhhh whoopah And I’m the crown princess of blubbaraiahhh

@@martevanderzee7440 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱 you are tired and washed up honey don't comment on what you don't know sweetie

You cant tell that the majority of them are NYC reject trash who probably shopped at goodwill?

whocares anymore he ate them with pleasure

Most but not all of the people in this video went on to tragedies. Murderers, drugs, mental illness, death at early ages, etc. Whether someone works at Wendy's or Wall Street it is sad to see this kind of self destructive behavior.

In any big city-- it was VERY common to see a "mixed bag" of people w/ different careers ( there was ALWAYS one guy / girl that was ALWAYS unemployed and looking, as well as "boring office cube jobs" . I knew people that were doormen in apartment buildings , people that worked in the TV and Movie costume industry, and people who worked for United Cerebal Palsy . So yeah- REAL mixed bag. I was the perpetual "starving artist" even though I did see some shiny bits of success over the years) . @@spontina

Im not a fan of Michael Musto. He really acts like he is better than all of them when he was just as much a part of the scene at the time.

it was his JOB to be there. He was a nightlife columnist. How do you expect him to get stories to write about without actually being at these events? Go back and watch the Geraldo videos with all the club kids, it was obvious that Michael Musto was nothing like the rest of the them, and was usually the only one who could form a complete sentence. I think him and Nelson were good friends, but obviously Nelson wasn't outrageous like the club kids either.

He trashes it because of what it eventually became

Exactly

@@willcourtneyspanish he was not of good friend of Nelson ! When Nelson died he said in an interview that Nelson was nothing and had nothing special without his camera.

The 80s were very much about individualism, greed, success at any price, and judging by appearance rather than merit or values. It wasn't just these people. Read Bret Easton Ellis or watch 80s films. It was a wonderful time to be a child which I was but a cutthroat time in business.

So right.

That's Julie Jewels, she used to hang out with Michael Alig a lot.

The most fabulous thing about the party. All she had to do was stand there 😍

She is now married to very, very rich Arab and doesn’t want to be known as Miss Jewel

@@martevanderzee7440 he didn't ask what she wanted to be known as 🥱

But the darkness had already arrived. You can see it in the way the people act. Vacuous and pretentious.

*Bunny -as in Lady Bunny the drag queen :) x

He

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It's so weird how old and yet how contemporary it feels.

Weird that nobody has much money but they ALL live right in NYC ! @@KarlSnarks

@@LannieLord Hahaha yeah that too XD

I legit thought it was her for a few seconds!

I thought the same.

Like, if juliette Lewis and sandra bernhardt had a baby...

I think shes hot

I wondered that very same thought. For some reason I feel like he didn't hide it though. Maybe he didn't wear the makeup and wigs to work, but he probably was happy to tell people who he was. That's my guess.

It's funny how you could say that into a camera and feel pretty sure that your manager will never see it. lol

@@seanfrank32 ?

@@minenotyours212 Because there was no internet in 1989

Thanks for pointing that out.... I already felt old just watching it! 😅😅😘

1.00 off was pretty good back then too lol

The Killing Joke came out in 1988

I think Nelson died before the scene became dark and creepy.

Ok, I found a video where James St James is interviewing RuPaul, who brings up Dick Richards & Nelson (as two of his mentors) at about 3:05 or 3:10. Ru pays lovely compliments to both men & credits them with helping him become who he is as a gay man. If what you're looking for is "proof," here ya go! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5ddeaSonMu3c3U.html

Sasha Paige Rupaul often talks about Nelson. He apparently lived in Nelson’s house after he passed.

@@KissMyBiscuits thanks for posting! It was great to see Ru talk about Nelson

Seriously. So much drama so little action.

Pompous, not at all charming. He had inherited money, and if not he would have nothing.