Looking for Fun at the Pyramid Club in the Wee Hours after Thanksgiving in 1987

[@aeroair4724]

Nelson Sullivan. Your #1 source for lifestyle in the 1980s.

[@RetroRoomYT]

I wonder if any of them thought that people would be watching this footage 30 years later.

[@ryanmahon1]

Retro Room they were living life in the now. Maybe Nelson haha

[@alexysq2660]

+moofork: You are ABSOLUTELY Correct...!!!

[@paulsmith3128]

+Carla Prada 😃😹😹😹

[@zensage9906]

Bet they had no clue. Ty nelson

[@mmoran3]

Just makes you think.. Wonder if there is any old footage of you wandering around the internet!

[@firstnamekaty8830]

I wish I could jump through my phone and hang out with them. They seem like such a good time! And I love how accepting they all are of each other.

[@The_A_Cast]

All those high heels and shoes tapping the concrete is like ASMR!

[@l.l.storrie3851]

R.I.P Nelson July 4th. These videos are my escape from a pretty awful reality I'm going through now. I just live vicariously through the times you all had!!

[@perjonsson8033]

Hope things are better det för you now. Yeah, this videos by Nelson really are Great so much another world, no cell phones and computers and other things. As I remember life was, in some ways easier and "nicer back then.

[@LisaMarie-xp4ym]

Yes, funny how we have these phones and internet and everyone has no time and doesn’t communicate with each other!! Pretty rubbish tbh!!!

[@murtithinker7660]

you know your history, don't you?

[@Sc0pee]

@@perjonsson8033 Life was actually harder back then. It was simpler though, but many things were a lot harder like calling to your crush! You needed to talk to your crushes parent and ask him/her to give the phone to your crush. Then they would go on and shout your name infront of everyone and haller your crush to come downstairs. This awkwardness would last for a minute until you could finally have a word with your crush. Then after a minute your crushes niece would start hurrying them to stop the call...also, you would need to to go to the bank to pay your bills.

[@cristymcdonald9008]

Hope things are better for you now

[@daviedmond4639]

I'm always in awe of the before famous footage and the raw in depth look into it. You don't see shit like this n when u do its planned, fake, edited....... Its marvelous just like ru

[@sharonmiller7213]

He's just preserved in ember. He did it just being his self ✨💪🏾✨

[@evelixity]

The part where Rupaul talks about his dream gave me chills. Cuz it really happened.

[@burpie3258]

it did??

[@burpie3258]

@@Kells6895 ...The comment was referring to a dream Rupaul had during the night. Did you not watch the fucking video?

[@XiomaraThaGoddessMeow]

@@Kells6895 yikes

[@ah2522]

@@Kells6895 how do you know he's not

[@sharonmiller7213]

Chillz chillz chillz

[@xclream]

Nelson Sullivan never died. He simply went back to the future on July 4th, 1989.

[@JJJ19j]

Love this

[@lizosborne9623]

Well said

[@shellyreddy598]

RIP Nelson, you precious soul. Thank you for keeping the memories alive, even more so 32 years later 💕

[@johna837]

and how EERY is it that RuPaul's dream about a plane over the Hudson and crash landing when everyone was ok???? Hello Sully? RuPaul the medium.

[@karenanneherbert9596]

I can't stop watching these. Lived on E5th between A and B over 30 years ago. Spent a lot of time at The Pyramid .(and in that Launderette on A they walk past!!) Bringing back some great memories for a 55yr old English woman!

[@linnycrocus6023]

Literally any club I try to go to in NY is so crowded and overpriced today lol. I was in awe at how spacious that place looked

[@teacupalice]

I love how you can see remnants from lines of coke in the bathroom

[@sharonmiller7213]

This deserves to be a deemed milestone in human history

[@CybermanBill]

Miss you Nelson.... I only got to meet you when I was young but you were so great!! Thanks for documenting the life and times of this era. It brings back memories! #RIPNelsonSullivan

[@cashm7977]

Best thing about Rupaul is no matter where he was in life... he was always a sweet heart. He sincerely cares about other people.

[@ginaphenix3519]

Yes indeed Beautiful soul ❤

[@sharonmiller7213]

Mm 🔥🔥🔥

[@antonsh8578]

Bullshit

[@jjbentley9]

He literally was the first youtuber before it was even popular.way ahead of his time.its so cool it takes you back it time.

[@cherylmification]

these videos are amazing

[@pablobaldomir9430]

Yes

[@Pri-ze7fv]

Just imagine what it was like, all that real interaction between each other, must've been a treat to have a genuine conversation with other people

[@jtherebel5152]

This. This right here

[@gardendormouse6479]

It was! I was 20 years old, living in New England at this time. Nelson and his friends listening to the radio really brings back memories.

[@shanibloome]

It was amazing!

[@sharonmiller7213]

What happened to our world ?? 😭😢

[@AmyAmyAmy98]

I would have loved to have experienced genuine conversations like this, no phones in sight. Just good times with your friends.

[@saintputch8707]

Can you imagine if there is a time machine and we can go back then and I'd be fangirling Ru and she would think I am a lunatic.

[@matemahe]

He had fans then.

[@kellykells8120]

Rupaul smoking weed caught on camera!! Freakin awesome! Lol. I love these videos

[@indashadewithguccipaid510]

He was doing coke before the cam came in the restroom lol

[@kemi7689]

so? everyone did including your parents

[@denisesanabia8422]

RUPAUL was doing coke in the bathroom lol

[@sharjjahnaziz4122]

Denise Sanabia Yes, it was pretty obvious !!!

[@alexysq2660]

But, i Know For a FACT that Ru Pre-FEEERRRED....Doin' PEPSI!!!

[@TheRollingCoinStore]

nah but she was def smoking weed after

[@pablobaldomir9430]

Salutes denise :)

[@pablobaldomir9430]

Denise you are pret

[@maec9690]

These videos are absolute gems. Thank you, Nelson!!

[@JJJ19j]

Love it smoking some green relaxing with friends having a great time with a icon

[@mykioto]

Rupaul having a dream that became true about the Hudson River landing makes me feel good about the dreams I have. Maybe in 30 years even the craziest dreams come true

[@OPHELIASMILE]

Rupaul had a dream about the plan that crashed in the Hudson river before it even happened? Wow, talk about being connected to the whole.

[@pablobaldomir9430]

Salutes rxl

[@leonlasko926]

omg I just thought the same thing.. yep he dam sure did lol

[@indashadewithguccipaid510]

His mom from Louisiana voodoo

[@elo5449]

Cj Paid really?

[@TheNomadicview]

"but everybody lived."

[@swampmonster8751]

Ru: *Remember that dream I had a year ago?* Never has he been so relatable

[@MissFlux]

Hahahaaa bloody stoners talking about dreams & shit .. haaa love it. All such beautiful people .. I know there was horrific things going on, like in any era but there is a part of me that would love to go back to what I call my "past life" ...especially watching these kind of scenes. You just in tha club with your clan & you know every angry inch of it. It was family time, sharing a joint or 2 down stairs or out the back of a club late late after a holiday like thanks giving. But then I remember the horrors & my heart aches & I think oh I can never go back. Thanks to Nelson the beautiful I don't have to!!! xxxx Thanks again 5ninthavenueproject

[@RebeccaO619]

Wow this footage is just amazing! And it keeps coming. Wonderful

[@AustyBaze]

No phones just a good time with friends what a magical time I so wish I could've experienced

[@memodalai1117]

Love your Vlogs. Thank you so much for sharing. Greetings from Norway, Northern Europe.

[@jimbobick]

Thank God for these. I love Nelson so much.

[@daviedmond4639]

Best part, AFTER THANKSGIVING DINNER ! AND SO TYPICAL

[@zanejohnson482]

thank you so much for these gems. Last few days have been spiced up by your videos!

[@misuruchan]

I've just stumbled apon these videos without any context. this is fascinating and very real indeed. Gonna check the rest out.

[@burpie3258]

nice!

[@randycox3232]

😘😘RuPaul......brings back memories....80's

[@justingoforth8102]

he predicted the plane landing on the Hudson and everyone living

[@justingoforth8102]

Joshua @7:30 RuPaul tells of a dream about crashing a plane in the hudson and everyone survived.

[@dreamopeth]

That's fucking crazy man, good find.

[@rose_lips_immortal_freak]

i find these vids so tragically beautiful, quality of life was shit, but in the midsts, they still found fun, its precious

[@melissab1197]

I love the conversation about the prune cake 🥰🥰🥰

[@jazzmenunderwood7719]

this dressing room looks like the one one the set of his show. it will never be the same for me.

[@sw_fit50s]

Ru was totally doing coke 😂 he is always so sweet to everyone 💜

[@bradsittmann1]

I finally get to smoke with my man Nelson. Thank you!

[@angiepangie2795]

“Barbie and the rockers are my favourite band” lmaoooooooo

[@PiranhaTub]

When the coke was pure and the weed was garbage.

[@daphnecarpenter2794]

It's comforting to see the mellowness of the weed smoking. Years later it became all about the candy flip and hard you could go...and those doing it weren't including weed in it.

[@uberglamazon]

Remember the days when u could just find parking anywhere in Alphabet City because nobody would dare park there?

[@76biggdogg]

Larry Tee parallel parking that van like a boss and Nelson filming in the rearview mirror!

[@the7thwreck]

They have not changed, I love it!

[@stacykeller3812]

Love the Prune Cake convo! Prune cake is quite delicious!

[@antiZymotic]

This camera is better at recording at night than my smartphone.. : /

[@leroyreed7036]

Videos like this take me back in time I had to be no more than seven maybe eight

[@slowlsj]

Ahhh the 80s , good cocaine, good music, nice clothes , sweet cars. I missed out :(

[@mikeh1804]

Yes cuz the powder today cut to hell

[@perjonsson8033]

Nice clothes??!!!??? The 80's??!! It the decade with the worst fashion trends and styles that I can remember. Even the 70's was better. I mean shoulder pads were huge! And white clothes were also big. And the hairstyles. But that's just My opinion.

[@nostalgicfragments]

Cheers to 30 years old! Respect! 👊🏻

[@Musistics]

Love RuPaul's and Lahoma's voices.

[@amypieterse3706]

i love their conversations!!!

[@kimberlyoboyle451]

You guys realize at 6:50 that is Lady Bunny, Jon Ingle, whom someone commented as the "cutie with the plaid shirt".

[@Ladyson]

And soon there after, was that Sherry Vine being introduced to Lady Bunny?

[@karikoty2958]

watching this on thanksgiving 2022

[@dianadundidit5343]

What a great soundtrack that would be!

[@PollyGammy]

Filmed 3 day’s before my 4th birthday. This is fucking wild. I love it. Ru really did the damn thing.

[@niallbyrne6474]

He has certainly come a hell of a long way. A mess with a heart. He is still a very sweet man. That Hudson prediction is so weird right?

[@winecrimesfoodandtime7119]

It is!

[@BlondeRockChick]

I remember the days getting drunk on thanksgiving ohh those were the days.. I should had moved to New York instead of staying in Tennessee after moving from Texas… at least we have Nelsons videos to show us how it was back in the day. Wish he was still here.

[@leonelroque4248]

Rupaul was not just a drag queen he was very artsy!!

[@newwavepop]

i was a high school Sophomore in Oklahoma at this time, day dreaming of this clubbing life in the big city.

[@cyndykated358]

When bars were nice and gritty....

[@Montana-Skies]

I would've loved to have been friends these guys bk then. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time;)

[@Prophezora]

No one was worried about instagram or things like that. Fun times!

[@robynd3632]

When Rupaul sings "MONEY!" had me crying with laughter. Love him so much. He's adorable. Love Nelson, what a legend. I wish be lived longer ❤

[@meganwatson3732]

Can’t believe these videos don’t have more views!

[@redboneshoneypot2960]

I love this!

[@quartzboye]

This is what living your best life is. : ')

[@freeleonardpeltier4148]

Holy fuck. The master of parallel parking!

[@johnnj3858]

Such a fun but dangerous time.

[@michaelgarel4279]

I think Ru Paul's dream about a plane landing in the Hudson is really...."insanely incredible."

[@crypticvinforever6350]

We stan a prophetic queen

[@MyLaland]

Ru Paul screaming MONEY gave me life

[@maec9690]

4:13 When you pair Dark Side Of The Moon with The Wizard Of Oz.. Money starts playing when Dorothy arrives in Oz and a whole world of color and magic opens up to her. Of course it would start playing as soon as my favorite being Rupaul comes on the screen. #everybodysayLOVE

[@Abercrombieindya]

But why does that pink mirrored station at 5:11 remind me of Drag Race? Lol

[@kiradavis9156]

Abercrombieindya maybe that's where he gets it from... his past of when he was trying to make it

[@alexysq2660]

YAAASSSSS.....!!!!!

[@margitouma6172]

OH THE TUNNEL! AHH THE MEMORIES.

[@0rluh]

They love that prune cake

[@sw33t_nation89]

❤ u came a long way look at u now RU

[@loviemonroe21]

Can you imagine all the hours of footage of people doing blow had to be edited out?! 😂😂

[@pablobaldomir9430]

Oh , very hard work , in these time not digital camera not i phones

[@emiliocojal]

2:15 enter to the club and listen the song Reach Out Of The Darkness by Friend & Lover, and then listen to Ru Paul singing Money by Pink Floyd. Definitely Pyramd club it was a good option to hang out.

[@redpillstepdad]

Rupaul didn’t like that Nelson walked in right after he did a line of ❄️ 😅

[@bratzliplogical]

Iconic

[@jesuisdiva]

The Beat Goes On was release in 1968, 19 years earlier. It would be like us in 2021 hearing Work It by Missy Elliot from 2002

[@cacitybird]

I wish there were intimate footage like this back in a day at the Dallas Starck Club.

[@Schontric]

im loving rupauls hair

[@rskman21]

RIP Nelson! July 4th,2017!

[@MiSSJUiCEBOXXLiVE]

knapp ster he didnt die in 2017.

[@TS-qq7vr]

@@MiSSJUiCEBOXXLiVE Head smack

[@brocklanders4684]

R u stupid Nelson passed in 89 His friend dick passed away. In 2017 or 2018? he's the reason why these videos are out there. That's why there's no new ones.

[@conner4991]

I FUCKING LOVE THESE

[@pablobotello4673]

I live for RuPaul doing coke at the bathroom 😁 YAAAAS QUEEN!!! Slam it!

[@frankreynoldsnh4798]

@30 she was onto something. A button that parks your car

[@rfhogan41951]

Thank you

[@tiffanycenti4503]

I am surprised these clubs allowed Nelson to film with his big video camera at the time.

[@jdawg119]

The world was a better place back then

[@tresjolieme81]

J Dawg more socializing then I did in a year

[@thespiriteye5803]

Nelson Got the Assignment!

[@danam312]

I just want to know how they found parking for a van near the club.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

i was a lil kid from texas and when i went into the pyramid club i felt i was home

[@nellycollins7878]

Ive partied at the Pyramid club. If im not mistaken its still open. Ive walked past it recently.

[@faithruckdeschel1294]

I'd love to see Ru and Michelle together on these movies. I don't know when they first met, but listening to Michelle, she was Ru's bestie and there has never been anyone else. One thing's for sure, Mother has had a very interesting other worldly life.

[@alexysq2660]

i BELIEVE (...?!) that it was, more-or-less, around...1986-ish, that they 'FIRST Met'/

[@nellissh2553]

I think they met in Atlanta first and then met up again in the city (NY)

[@mateor9515]

OMG pink floyd!!

[@TheWoodstaShow]

RIP Pyramid Club 😭❤️

[@nancyc3984]

Parallel parked that big o van first try I would have been there for a good 10 mins trying to do that lol