Yes, back then many people still knew how to conduct themselves properly in public, and dressed nicely when going out anywhere at all. I still try to be that way, but I can't wear nice shoes or do my hair now. I miss when ladies looked like this.
I'm from the south and my grandmother and her sisters behave the same way. Nothing but class. Such a shame this generation is obsessed with bathroom selfies and leggings. My grandmother would have referred to them as harlots.
Nelson was so skilled with holding the camera and capturing everything around him. I like his demeanor and southern charm and he makes me laugh during these videos
Had dinner with Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara. Ben Stiller's parents. Jerry Stiller is Arthur Spooner from the show King of Queens for those who don't know. Nelson is a legend.
Time is our enemy!Today I saw some youngsters going to their prom night,and got instant flash back of my prom ,which was 21yrs ago.I got tears in my eyes,time flies so fast.
Do you have any life advice to the youngsters of today? I would love to hear something.. I feel like I'm wasting my youth away and it's making me fall even deeper into this hole I dug myself into. I feel stuck, like I'll never go places or make it.. depression is a death sentence, it's a nasty disease and I'm feeling it now more than ever. Sorry to pour all my negativity onto you.. was just wondering if you had any life advice or something like that to give 🗿
@@mattdrago4660 First of all, I want to thank you for asking, it means more than you can ever know. So thanks for that. Right now I'm actually in possibly the worst time of my life. I'm completely heart broken (entirely my fault to be honest) I set myself up for so much heartbreak & I expect so much all the time. I know that's not right but I can't help it. I feel so lost right now. I don't even know who I am. I kind of know what I want but I have absolutely no love for myself or motivation to follow through with my dreams. I feel so empty & so much all at once, it's overwhelming. I just feel too much & it's killing me. Who even am I anymore? I've completely lost my way & myself. I'm basically dead. God help me.
@@dixienormous6969 Sorry to hear all this. You shouldn't have to feel this way. Please feel free to reach out to me if you'd like. Not sure if you're on instagram, but you can send me a dm there whenever you'd like. Take care
I love the sound of the old ring tones the phones had then. Each exchange had a different tone along with mechanical connection sounds. It brought back memories of the 60s, 70s, 80s.
I always found the tone that came before "the number you have dialed cannot be reached either because..." to be eerie. I wish I could find it somewhere
the recent pics ive seen of Nelsons apartment on Google Earth, theres a restaurant next to it, and the vine that Nelson would show in his videos is still there
@@deepstate3358 you can see Nelsons apartment on Google Earth, i cant remember the old address of the top of my head, but the building is still standing with a restaurant in it now
@@deepstate3358 I found a video of a guy that goes to his apartment. Although he was only able to go outside because apparently there were residents at the time. ruclips.net/video/SPW1G1JLy64/видео.html
I work around the corner from 5 9th Ave - well, worked since the office is closed due to the pandemic. I often walked by 5 9th Ave, and thought of Nelson and all these moments shot there.
what type of work do you do? I visited NYC last month and ate at RH rooftop across the street from his old house and paid it a visit. Crazy to see the same door and vine still growing on the building.
7/1/22 What a special video. Nelson & mom look so much alike. Nyc back in the day. Mrs Sullivan & her ? sister are charming. His death was devastating . RIP ❤
Nelson tells the ladies that Jerry Stiller (Frank Costanza) & Annel Mirah were in that play 5 years ago and now their son (Ben Stiller) is in it... and that Nelson had dinner with him on Thanksgiving Day!
@@lisawalker91 inane is indeed a word but it doesn't fit the sentence structure does it? Pretty she he meant to say insane. Not sure I agree either cell phones are a mixture of blessing and curse.
I miss using traditional phones. Back in the day, I could remember the number for my friends and family. I doubt many experience wrong number nowadays.
True southern ladies with their well bred sons..........southern aristocracy who were definitely not new money........and Mrs. Sullivan lived to be 97! Mark lived to 81! Nelson inherited his fathers genes for heart failure who died of one at 42
Maritza Cardona I bet their attention spans must be more a minute as ours would be eight seconds, shorter than a goldfish since we have all of this technology.
No cell phones, Ar you fucking kidding me?? It is in pop culture that there were cell/mobile phones in the 80's Have a think will you as there were many adverts on TV, Picture in Mags of the brick phone etc My dad had this and remember this advert FOR MBILE PHONE FROM BT -being on every 10 mins-ruclips.net/video/k6b4NtJdCH8/видео.html Also other phone companies like Motorola, Nokia etc, in the 80's And in many films like Wall Street, And TV Shows like-Family Ties First mobile phone came out in 1985
@@mikekaraoke I believe what they meant was that it was not common for people to have a cell phone, because it wasn't. Car phones were big and wealthy people walked around with big bulky phones. I grew up in the 80s, and it was rare to see a cell phone, hardly any. Certainly not like today. Pagers were big in the 90s and we would have to go to a phone booth to make a call if we weren't home or near a phone line. Even so, there is absolutely no need to reply "are you fucking kidding me" on a completely innocent comment. You obviously weren't alive then, but I was. Cell phones were not a thing everyone carried until the 90s and 2000s.
I think the most devastating thing I learned about watching these videos is that blackout when he died was thrown in the hudson river by rupal and another. Changes these wonderful memories for me
5:00 I think I know where that is! I was there not too long ago. I remember that statue. It's somewhere around Central Park, can't remember but there is a train station nearby.
@@dasistliana5151 they're on RUclips. Forever trapped in these moments that nelson recorded. They will say and do the same thing over and over like a distant memory
Can anyone explain this channel to me? I mean I know Nelson and his life etc but did he edit these together himself or did he just shoot tons of tape and then someone has edited them all and put them online after his death?
I found this channel because I was curious what recently released murderer, Michael Alig was doing. He was one of Nelson's club kid friends, seen in a few of his vids. McCauly Culkin and Seth Green played Michael Alig & James St. James in the movie Party Monster. After discovering Nelson's vids, in my eyes, he is a bigger star than all of his famous & infamous friends put together.
I guess because they weren't used to it? In the videos with Nelson's aquintances, they look a lot less uncomfortable because they were probably used to him having the camera with him. That's my guess
Nelson said he had Thanksgiving dinner with Ben Stiller in this video. Just non chalantly mentions him as Jerry Stiller's son, lol. Before Ben got super famous.
Funny, I was thinking Aunt Doris reminded me of Blanche Devareoux and Liz tells Nelson “ say hi to Blanche” I’m assuming she thought aunt Doris is like Blanche too...
Looks like Paris Opera Ballet was on the Marque. In those days Baryshnikov was a star and Nureyev was still Alive. Wonder if Nelson was a fan of New York City Ballet or American Ballet Theatre? They were both right there at Lincoln Center ABT at the Met and NYCB at NY State Theatre. But in those days Joffrey Ballet was at the City Center. Wish I could ask him...
Considering Nelson’s families background, and hometown I’m actually surprised how nonjudgmental and non racist they come across also for the time being.
@@Skidoo22 To rehabilitate the reputation Trump never really owned the St Moritz was only in bargaining and it is owned by the Marriott corporation today
once in a while I just need to hear Nelson's voice, I just love it.
I love this comment. He really does bring us back to a world where kindness mattered.
He really seemed like a great dude.
This comment is old, but I could not agree more...
His voice is very comforting. I need to hear it from time to time but these days I need to hear it all the the time..
His mother was so elegant ❤
Nelson's mother and aunt carry themselves with such elegance that they look more like visiting heads of state rather than a couple of tourists.
Old Southern Americans with Class. We don't see that anymore.
Yes, back then many people still knew how to conduct themselves properly in public, and dressed nicely when going out anywhere at all. I still try to be that way, but I can't wear nice shoes or do my hair now. I miss when ladies looked like this.
I'm from the south and my grandmother and her sisters behave the same way. Nothing but class. Such a shame this generation is obsessed with bathroom selfies and leggings. My grandmother would have referred to them as harlots.
@@daygon128 🙂 truth there
This comment thread is obnoxious.
I want them to do a biopic film or documentary on this guy. He looked like a fun guy and he knew a lot of famous people so he was somebody.
My only complaint with Nelson's videos are we don't see enough of his sweet face. Just love that man. He seemed so genuine.
Blanch Sullivan…. Thank you for raising such a beautiful human❤
I miss that old Regency Theatre. My brother and I used to watch old movies there all the time.
No cell phones, no social media but he rocked vlogging like in 2020.
When I need comfort...these videos are home.
For me too :')
I love that he mentions he had dinner with Ben Stiller.
NY Devil back when Stiller was punk rock
@NY Devil Ben Stiller was well known in the mid 80's, So what you on about
@@mikekaraoke No he wasn't. This role that Nelson mentions was his first stage role and he only had bit parts before that on TV. Hardly well known
In the 80's he was his father's son.
@@TheTruthiest He wasn't a nobody that was my point-And he was still getting asked for autographs etc
Nelson's mom looks so sophisticated and classy.
What a great series of videos. His mom and aunt really have a TIGHT white-knuckle grip on their handbags.
Nelson was so skilled with holding the camera and capturing everything around him. I like his demeanor and southern charm and he makes me laugh during these videos
Had dinner with Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara. Ben Stiller's parents. Jerry Stiller is Arthur Spooner from the show King of Queens for those who don't know. Nelson is a legend.
Excuse me Jerry Stiller is Frank Costanza.
@@wantsomecoffee Excuse me but he also played the character Arthur Spooner. Look it up.
Time is our enemy!Today I saw some youngsters going to their prom night,and got instant flash back of my prom ,which was 21yrs ago.I got tears in my eyes,time flies so fast.
Do you have any life advice to the youngsters of today? I would love to hear something.. I feel like I'm wasting my youth away and it's making me fall even deeper into this hole I dug myself into. I feel stuck, like I'll never go places or make it.. depression is a death sentence, it's a nasty disease and I'm feeling it now more than ever. Sorry to pour all my negativity onto you.. was just wondering if you had any life advice or something like that to give 🗿
@@dixienormous6969 yes!have fun every day ,every single day! You will remember good times later on.Dont dwell on depression,you are far too young! 💞
@@dixienormous6969 how are you feeling these days? Hope your days have been a little brighter.
@@mattdrago4660 First of all, I want to thank you for asking, it means more than you can ever know. So thanks for that. Right now I'm actually in possibly the worst time of my life. I'm completely heart broken (entirely my fault to be honest) I set myself up for so much heartbreak & I expect so much all the time. I know that's not right but I can't help it. I feel so lost right now. I don't even know who I am. I kind of know what I want but I have absolutely no love for myself or motivation to follow through with my dreams. I feel so empty & so much all at once, it's overwhelming. I just feel too much & it's killing me. Who even am I anymore? I've completely lost my way & myself. I'm basically dead. God help me.
@@dixienormous6969 Sorry to hear all this. You shouldn't have to feel this way. Please feel free to reach out to me if you'd like. Not sure if you're on instagram, but you can send me a dm there whenever you'd like. Take care
I love the sound of the old ring tones the phones had then. Each exchange had a different tone along with mechanical connection sounds. It brought back memories of the 60s, 70s, 80s.
I always found the tone that came before "the number you have dialed cannot be reached either because..." to be eerie. I wish I could find it somewhere
Best years to live on this Earth
I miss calling the weather. I'll never forget one time I heard the person cussing in background.
I remember the days when you used to remember phone numbers off by heart!!
I’m so glad he did this. he was friends with Ben Stiller and rupaul that’s honestly one of a kind
I live close to Nelson’s hometown of Kershaw. It’s so quaint and it reminds me of classy Southern Belles!
Kershaw is English or Irish Town??
the recent pics ive seen of Nelsons apartment on Google Earth, theres a restaurant next to it, and the vine that Nelson would show in his videos is still there
Wow that's so nice. Do you have a link?
@@deepstate3358 you can see Nelsons apartment on Google Earth, i cant remember the old address of the top of my head, but the building is still standing with a restaurant in it now
@@deepstate3358 I found a video of a guy that goes to his apartment. Although he was only able to go outside because apparently there were residents at the time.
ruclips.net/video/SPW1G1JLy64/видео.html
@@bigkev2084 it's 5 Ninth Avenue. I looked just yesterday, and the vine he planted is still there and huge.
Honestly i would have loved to have met Nelson.....Rest in peace nelson
I work around the corner from 5 9th Ave - well, worked since the office is closed due to the pandemic. I often walked by 5 9th Ave, and thought of Nelson and all these moments shot there.
what type of work do you do? I visited NYC last month and ate at RH rooftop across the street from his old house and paid it a visit. Crazy to see the same door and vine still growing on the building.
For those curious, he mentions Ben Stiller at around 6:01
Good observation
Antonio Hernandez o
How odd. I chose the video where he mentions Jerry Stiller on the day when Jerry died. Rest in Peace to him and Nelson.
So cool seeing a fantastic mom and her sister visiting Nelson, and his brother ❤ 🙏💯🇺🇲👍
What a gentleman Marko, opening the door for those two fine ladies.
LOL 😂
I was thinking the same 😂
Noticed that too!! Yeah.. WOW
Back then that came natural to men not not nowadays
"Well hello" "Didn't you know you'd find yo' mama in the bar?" Lol
Thanks for showing us Manhattan and six avenue in 1986! Nice memories.
Omg! The calls from 411, to the hotel to reservations to the room. That’s as fucking awesome.
What amazes me is how quick he remembered the number the operator gave him on him on the phone
They visited him a lot!! So nice!!
Someone please make a respectful and well edited with supportive back story on Nelson's life and times DOCU-Series or something like that.
7/1/22
What a special video. Nelson & mom look so much alike. Nyc back in the day. Mrs Sullivan & her ? sister are charming. His death was devastating . RIP ❤
Living for Aunt Doris! So glam!
Nelson tells the ladies that Jerry Stiller (Frank Costanza) & Annel Mirah were in that play 5 years ago and now their son (Ben Stiller) is in it... and that Nelson had dinner with him on Thanksgiving Day!
It is amazing all the details he captures while filming, very curious man
It’s inane how privileged we are with cell phones
insane*
@@planetX15,no he meant inane, lord have mercy look it up.smdh
@@lisawalker91 inane is indeed a word but it doesn't fit the sentence structure does it? Pretty she he meant to say insane. Not sure I agree either cell phones are a mixture of blessing and curse.
the og phones sounded great
Cell phones ruined our society, but you're welcome.
PANASONIC phone and answer machine 💯👍
Those ladies look classy
I remember calling information!!
The atmosphere and lighting in that bar is perfection to me. Drinking and smoking there would do me nicely
I just love the videos of Nelsons family his mother dressed so Beautifully and always walked ith pose!!
I miss using traditional phones. Back in the day, I could remember the number for my friends and family. I doubt many experience wrong number nowadays.
When you dialed someone without an area code
You can still do that
@@cesarcueto1995 my phone won't put calls through without them
@@michaelfrazia4569 I can dial numbers without an area code but my phone will assume I am dialing to my numbers same area code.
I wonder if the fabulously charming southern Ms Sullivan is still with us...I cant remember if anyone mentioned her passing away.
Wow !!!!! A live operator
Do you no longer have live operators in the States? Is it all automated?
Its amazing I was like 20 years old 😆, the food was way better then.
So good to his Momma. 💗😍
Civility....people had it in 1986. That's one element of these videos that are so engrossing.
it was already mostly gone by that time
An operator?? Love this!
Throw back to when socialising was still a thing
Outstanding
True southern ladies with their well bred sons..........southern aristocracy who were definitely not new money........and Mrs. Sullivan lived to be 97! Mark lived to 81! Nelson inherited his fathers genes for heart failure who died of one at 42
His father died at 60something
The Sullivans were attached to a large cotton fortune, old money which used to be very wealthy. Members of his family are still in that industry.
Some people are never meant to grow old ,sadly .
3:40 OMG the days of the old times square, and cabs!!! OOHHHH NYC HOW I MISS YOu!!
Nelson's family came from $.
I love you Nelson 💛
Me just checking in on my best friend Nelson!
Aunt Doris clutched that purse the entire walk 😭
Smart woman
NYC what do you think it was Mayberry? Lol
Classy ladies indeed ❤
5:20 passing by a poster of Whodini!
Nelson's mum and auntie have that special retro early 1960's Jacqueline Kennedy era class.
I remember the St. Moritz. In the 90s it was the best bargain on the park.
Everything,...every single thing. YOU GOT THIS! xoxoxoxo
What a talent.
Wow in those days no cell phones otherwise he could have called her if she was waiting in the lobby.
Maritza Cardona I bet their attention spans must be more a minute as ours would be eight seconds, shorter than a goldfish since we have all of this technology.
@@unknownunknowns they had twice as much tech then now all we need is a stupid phone
No cell phones, Ar you fucking kidding me??
It is in pop culture that there were cell/mobile phones in the 80's
Have a think will you as there were many adverts on TV, Picture in Mags of the brick phone etc
My dad had this and remember this advert FOR MBILE PHONE FROM BT -being on every 10 mins-ruclips.net/video/k6b4NtJdCH8/видео.html
Also other phone companies like Motorola, Nokia etc, in the 80's
And in many films like Wall Street, And TV Shows like-Family Ties
First mobile phone came out in 1985
@@mikekaraoke I believe what they meant was that it was not common for people to have a cell phone, because it wasn't. Car phones were big and wealthy people walked around with big bulky phones. I grew up in the 80s, and it was rare to see a cell phone, hardly any. Certainly not like today. Pagers were big in the 90s and we would have to go to a phone booth to make a call if we weren't home or near a phone line. Even so, there is absolutely no need to reply "are you fucking kidding me" on a completely innocent comment. You obviously weren't alive then, but I was. Cell phones were not a thing everyone carried until the 90s and 2000s.
Nelson was talking about having dinner with Anne Meara and Jerry and Ben STILLER! HOLY SHIT MAN!
Thank you, so very much for letting me tag along. Love y’all.💖🌻😉✝️
That’s a whole look in and of itself: Nelson’s friend with high top converse sneakers, short shorts and a homemade crop top. 😆
Hahaha that's the 💅🏼 look hehe
looks so different when no one's having phone in their hand.
Bilal Ahmed that can easily be the case today. Everything can be changed overnight.
I really wish one day all technology would fail us
Such a respectable lot,and very polished too,love to witness high drama it would have been spectacular I bet.
Wow
I think the most devastating thing I learned about watching these videos is that blackout when he died was thrown in the hudson river by rupal and another. Changes these wonderful memories for me
B.s.
@@Bill-cv1xu Umm. The retro room channel is the one that said it. Smh
@@Sablesez ok,its just kind of hard to believe. Thanks for the info.
Not true rupaul and Albert took care of him after Nelson passed
Think Nelson’s brother was a lawyer so that explains a lot.
@orionh3000 why was he such a dick? What makes you say that?
he was a lawyer and recently passed away I believe. www.findagrave.com/memorial/177564547/mark-d.-sullivan - he was 74
0:16 why didn’t he just google the number on his iPhone, was the wifi down?
That's exactly what I was thinking! Jeez Nelson really made his life more complex than it had to be ugh 😑 😒
I hope you’re kidding.
@@ajvintage9579 I hope it doesn’t take you a while to catch on irl.
5:00 I think I know where that is! I was there not too long ago. I remember that statue. It's somewhere around Central Park, can't remember but there is a train station nearby.
You are right, that's the entrance to the park from 59 street and central Park West and right there is the 59 street train station
@@1474JOHN crazy how some things haven't changed.
Back when the had operators !
When was the last time you called the operator?
Excellent camera work.
6:38 is that laguardia hs graduating???????? oh my god
Nelson and Marco both gentlemen. Marco looks like a man in today's time..2021.
is Marko still alive? and when did his Mama pass? she seemed like a sweet southern lady
Peg Schmuck I know this is an old comment but she passed away in 2012.
Mark passed away in 2017.
So sad everyone in the video are not with us anymore. RIP.
@Keith White wut
@@dasistliana5151 they're on RUclips. Forever trapped in these moments that nelson recorded. They will say and do the same thing over and over like a distant memory
Back when you called somewhere and got a human right away
Can anyone explain this channel to me? I mean I know Nelson and his life etc but did he edit these together himself or did he just shoot tons of tape and then someone has edited them all and put them online after his death?
i think his friend, Dick, did it
I found this channel because I was curious what recently released murderer, Michael Alig was doing. He was one of Nelson's club kid friends, seen in a few of his vids. McCauly Culkin and Seth Green played Michael Alig & James St. James in the movie Party Monster. After discovering Nelson's vids, in my eyes, he is a bigger star than all of his famous & infamous friends put together.
Nelson was a videographer and did a lot of the editing (including adding music) himself.
Would be nice to see Aunt Nancy in NYC also.
The two of them don’t seem to love the camera much, do they?
I guess because they weren't used to it?
In the videos with Nelson's aquintances, they look a lot less uncomfortable because they were probably used to him having the camera with him. That's my guess
Nelson references having dinner with what would have been a 21 year old Ben Stiller
curious, anybody know how wealthy nelson was ??? say he was linked to cotton fortune ???
A simpler time
Nelson said he had Thanksgiving dinner with Ben Stiller in this video. Just non chalantly mentions him as Jerry Stiller's son, lol. Before Ben got super famous.
I love these videos of Nelson’s but my OCD wants to reach through the screen and disinfect his phone.
His brother was so hot.
Funny, I was thinking Aunt Doris reminded me of Blanche Devareoux and Liz tells Nelson “ say hi to Blanche” I’m assuming she thought aunt Doris is like Blanche too...
WOW... they're staying at the St.Moritz hotel. They had money!... The Mickey Mantle bar&restaurant was in the next building back then.
Were those phone operators?
Does anyone know if his brother is still alive?
Maritza Cardona he passed away earlier this year
he passed away in 2017 at the age of 74 - www.findagrave.com/memorial/177564547/mark-d.-sullivan
I was born this year
And I was born 13 years later haha
I was born 7 years later.
Looks like Paris Opera Ballet was on the Marque. In those days Baryshnikov was a star and Nureyev was still Alive. Wonder if Nelson was a fan of New York City Ballet or American Ballet Theatre? They were both right there at Lincoln Center ABT at the Met and NYCB at NY State Theatre. But in those days Joffrey Ballet was at the City Center. Wish I could ask him...
Looks as if Nelson's brother missed ole Momma Bear, chewing her ear off.
Considering Nelson’s families background, and hometown I’m actually surprised how nonjudgmental and non racist they come across also for the time being.
Classy hotel, does it still exist.
In 86 it was owned by Trump. Now it's called the Ritz Carlton hotel.
@@Skidoo22 To rehabilitate the reputation Trump never really owned the St Moritz was only in bargaining and it is owned by the Marriott corporation today
Page them in the lobby, Nelson.
Who upload these videos
Adorable Princess his close friend
Jerry