I always imagined him ending up with his own talk show or some kind of TV personality. He was already on track for something like that in the days before he died.
I know. It's sad. If only we had found out and known about AIDS/HIV back then and that it would be coming in a year or two from then. more of them would probably at least lived a lot longer than they did, since many of them we see here probably caught the disease. :(
Best advice I can give you and the other guy who just commented me is find one person you're attracted to and stay with them. Not as exciting that way but it saves lives. Don't fuck all over town or you will pay the price.
You never had anything on this scale in the UK at that time. Piers were for alighting from boats over here. Cruising went on in Hampstead Heath and gay bars.
I am gay and love the look of a lot of the guys in this video and the styles back then! If i'd been an adult then, I'm almost sure I'd have been cruising around all the hot spots there and having some hot fun!!!!!! :-D
My friend told me if you went there at night, the abandoned buildings would be full of smoke and mist. If you bent down and looked at the room from the floor, you could see all sorts of legs.
I wonder how many of these gentlemen made it through the eighties. Not to sound insensitive, but it strikes me that at least some of these men likely were among the City's AIDS cases in the coming years.
Proud Reaganite Conservative Interesting. I'm a straight guy, somewhat traditional and I definitely don't have HIV/AIDS.A person can feel sad for those who died from AIDS. Keep in mind the great Cardinal O'Connor himself was known to work in hospice to take care those dying from AIDS. Deal with your anger issues, brother.
Of course they did. I don't think his comment indicated that he believes they didn't. That said, HIV/AIDS decimated a large swath of gay men, a higher proportion than any other group with the exception of hemophiliacs.
at 2:02.... the two cyclists exchanging the " I'm already spoken for....but come up and see me sometime sailor"....greeting/signal.... well known in the village also Union square SanFrankie...💁💁💁💁
Whe I was kid I ask my mother in the car why so many men on corner on christen street 100 on corner there was a bar called the blue bar IA big hangout place
Has definitely changed it's more space but still so beautiful I just wish the young little gay rachets would stay away I can't say how many times I've tried to take a picture and some random gay decided to jump in my pic or there has been a damn fight or someone almost dying of drugs shit one time ...I was out there and some dude jumped in the water they said he was trying to kill himself idk but omg smh wasn't like that before its shit now
Perfect. Gritty old, shabby, rough-around-the edges New York. As it was. As I will always remember it. Thank you!
This film showed the sanitized version of the piers..it was much more grittier than shown..I should know ..I was there
How did they stand the disgusting filth and smells? I couldn't had had id been in NYC at the time, probably huge rats too!
The Pop Tarts . . . a perfect soundtrack for the Piers! Bless you Nelson, and thanks again 5ninthavenueproject!
This footage belongs in a museum.
He was forty years ahead of everyone else. Imagine what he would be doing now.
I always imagined him ending up with his own talk show or some kind of TV personality. He was already on track for something like that in the days before he died.
He walks on these peirs in his last video and they are all worn out , he mentions how nice it used to be now I can see .
I'd like to see what they did with them by now!
By "nice" you must mean, "really gay".
Wish they would release more of this non-Rupaul type of footage. I heard Nelson's archives are HUGE, so I know they exist.
I long for an era of freedom and fun that I only got a taste of in the late 90's. The 70's were AWESOME!
ehh, it was quite shit in it's own way
Music amplifies the cruiseyness of the place, enchanting
To be young and sexy in 1976.
It must've been a lot of fun.
😔
Wish I could've been there......
You lucky bastards! 😭
what a great place
great memories of most happy sunny days in NYC
And so it begins. The end of an era. Goodbye, free love on the beach...hello, AIDS. Nelson was way ahead of his time.
It was too early for AIDS. This video shows 1976. AIDS didn’t appear until around 1983 give or take.
marvelous that this footage exists..thanks nelson :-)
the in camera edits are amazing in this !
I didnt get there till 1980 .u did a great job , nice vintage footage
Btw love that guy at 1:45. The shorts, the bod, and the buns! :-D
More than likely, that guy and most of the others in the video are no longer with us.
I know. It's sad. If only we had found out and known about AIDS/HIV back then and that it would be coming in a year or two from then. more of them would probably at least lived a lot longer than they did, since many of them we see here probably caught the disease. :(
Best advice I can give you and the other guy who just commented me is find one person you're attracted to and stay with them.
Not as exciting that way but it saves lives.
Don't fuck all over town or you will pay the price.
Yup! Very true, sexy Buddha. :)
You never had anything on this scale in the UK at that time. Piers were for alighting from boats over here. Cruising went on in Hampstead Heath and gay bars.
Amazing video thank you for posting this
I am gay and love the look of a lot of the guys in this video and the styles back then! If i'd been an adult then, I'm almost sure I'd have been cruising around all the hot spots there and having some hot fun!!!!!! :-D
......you'd be covered in purple spots and shitting all over yourself 10 years later.
I know. :( Chances of that would likely have been quite strong. :(
And you would be dead.
@@MikeSmith-ve2quin 1976 probably not. 1986, almost definitely.
I didn’t know Nelson filmed in the 70s too! Didn’t it say the 1984 one was his first clip?
Goodlies Film school project.
He has Fire Island footage from the '70s too, considered Ground Zero for the spread of AIDS.
1983
WOW THERE ALL GONE NOW THEY TOOK THESE OUT SOMETIME AFTER 2001 REAL SAD SHIT
I was hypnotized by this.
6 years later johnny and so am I ....are you still here
My friend told me if you went there at night, the abandoned buildings would be full of smoke and mist. If you bent down and looked at the room from the floor, you could see all sorts of legs.
If you bent over you'd see and feel all sorts of things.
@@TS-qq7vr lol
1976!! I thought he started in 1983! Wow
Wonderful memories.
I wonder how many of these gentlemen made it through the eighties. Not to sound insensitive, but it strikes me that at least some of these men likely were among the City's AIDS cases in the coming years.
Proud Reaganite Conservative
Interesting. I'm a straight guy, somewhat traditional and I definitely don't have HIV/AIDS.A person can feel sad for those who died from AIDS. Keep in mind the great Cardinal O'Connor himself was known to work in hospice to take care those dying from AIDS. Deal with your anger issues, brother.
+Proud Reaganite Conservative No back under your rock you fucking fossil.
I always wonder the same when I see vids of gay men in New York during the 70's.
WORSTDAYOFYOURLIFE
Yeah, no straight folks ever got AIDS in the 80s...get a clue
Of course they did. I don't think his comment indicated that he believes they didn't. That said, HIV/AIDS decimated a large swath of gay men, a higher proportion than any other group with the exception of hemophiliacs.
Apologies if this was already asked, but does anyone know what this music is?
Men with body hair! YES! Not anymore though :(
wow! this is great!
If you got wet here it wasnt water😅😅😅
at 2:02.... the two cyclists exchanging the
" I'm already spoken for....but come up and see me sometime sailor"....greeting/signal....
well known in the village also Union square SanFrankie...💁💁💁💁
had 1st gay incounter on those piers!
Where you a top or bottom ??
Somebody's a sensitive bottom.
Is that place still there where Kojak
Can you please tell name of the song?
Časlav Tomović The Music is by the Pop Tarts, Fenton and Randy. Doubt you could get a copy of it nowadays.
The Fabulous Pop Tarts "Desiderata"
Whe I was kid I ask my mother in the car why so many men on corner on christen street 100 on corner there was a bar called the blue bar IA big hangout place
The Gay Jesus Christ appears at the 1.57 mark.....
Great if I could get the music, anyone know what it's called?
I thought the same thing . It is the Fabulous Pop Tarts, I cant remember the name of the song, but I think its actually a mix of songs
The Fabulous Pop Tarts "Desiderata"
All that is Park space now
The PierS? Plural? It was all ONE Pier.
I remember the Piers during the 1970's. Full of people 24 hours a day. Also the elevated highway and the endless line of tractor trailers underneath.
How old are you?
@@5ywharhrwthqrhqjwr740 64 years old. I was 20 years old in 1976. The West Village was like heaven!
Where are my gay Asian and Latino men at?
West Village and Greenwich Village 1970s %90 European(Majority British Americans)
"Eehhh Yeu, Girls" at 1:34.
is it silly to ask whether Nelson was (insert humorous term for a homosexual) himself?
I can't believe I had to ask this question at all.
Has definitely changed it's more space but still so beautiful I just wish the young little gay rachets would stay away I can't say how many times I've tried to take a picture and some random gay decided to jump in my pic or there has been a damn fight or someone almost dying of drugs shit one time ...I was out there and some dude jumped in the water they said he was trying to kill himself idk but omg smh wasn't like that before its shit now
I bet most are dead
Where are the women????
Bile Bily lol
@@arikq_nyc438 xD
Beware of Rockefellers in cheap clothing...
Beware of Rockefeller in cheap nose-rings💁💁💁💁💁
Wasn't it stinky and rat infested?
narc narc....is anybodies home???💁💁💁