Eric Conrad's Bowling Party at the Port Authority Bus Station in 1986 

On that day it must have been difficult to imagine that people around the world would be watching their event 32 years later...

Nelsons videos are epic. How great to have a video record of such a special time in NYC ... that Golden Era that started in the down-and-out, bankrupt 1970's and closed with the Disneyfication of Times Square and Downtown gentrification. I'm so glad Nelsons vlogs were not lost or destroyed after his premature passing.

Rumor has it, one of those hot dogs still is in port authority to this day

what a blessing it is to be formerly invited to Eric's party through nelson's virtual invitation

I bet everything was fun with Nelson. Back when wearing more clothes at a time was fashionable😂 I remember guys coming to school in ties,baggy slacks (no butts out)and dress shoes without being asked to,I miss the 80s. Thanks for the post.

Just look at those beautiful perfectly coifed 1980 hairstyles on the guys at the door

7:45 what a tenor! And boy!

I used to go bowling there. Scuzzy times square, but that's how it used to be.

Some experienced New yorker should do a map of ALL the places Nelson frequented in those vídeos: restaurantes, clubs, streets. Something like: New York Sullivan's tour.

I'll bet the comedy show Nelson was making was gonna be good with his humor and all these characters in his videos.

Young and full of life. One of the last generations to have to go out to communicate and chill. Would have been cool to have experienced the 80s and 90s

I’m just taking a wild guess that this is first time most of these people went to a bowling alley.

When all of the great indoors was a smoking zone.

Musto never took off those sunglasses did he

I wasn’t born until 1992, so seeing stuff like this is pretty interesting. You can tell it was definitely a different time then.

Thanks so much for putting these videos together!!!

Nelson's subject: the human condition.

Wow didnt even have score boards that kept score for them. They had to keep it themselves. Oh these videos are so great

The guy @7:42 has an excellent singing voice :-)

I would have loved to see Nelson bowl. 💜💚💙🧡❤

Who was the guy singing around 8 minutes in? And who was the person at the end who walked up the lane? Anyway, thanks for uploading this - it's nice to see everyone genuinely enjoying themselves (none of the cynical, automated misery that is so commonplace now). Fenton's messy hair and his Russian hat are a real look. And as always I love that Nelson took time to shoot some of the scenery of the day - scenery many take for granted but is so important years down the line.

All that time I spent at Port Authority and I had NO idea there was a bowling alley

Yup......that's the bowling alleys at the Port Authority.......The cops even back then congregate in bunches just like they do today. You just can't miss it. People from all over the country talk about them doing that. They can at least try to split up and walk around and try to look busy instead of standing there with their hands in their pockets and talking to each other.

I believe that's a lady this is bowling at the last part of the video. I could be wrong, I just loved that suit she's wearing.

Love the vlogs

That hotdog machine is still turning somewhere in a macabre parody of life.

Michael Musto..ehh.

Michael Musto is 65! Holy fuck.

Pinball machine worth 1000000 $ today haha

I grew up in NYC my whole life. Why do people keep saying it was so different back then? It’s VERY similar actually, ignore camera quality since it makes us feels it was so different.

🤔 - That Michael Musto guy is an ODD person. Rather hang out with RuPauL. 😁 *snapfingers*

"LOOK LOOK AIDS" "Its a hickey" interesting to see how serious they took things. Or how lightly they took life.

Those rotisserie hotdogs tho! 😬

The guy in the black sunglasses is Michael Musto

Ric Ocasek guys hair is so shiny!

I can smell the cigarette smoke from here

That girl jumpin g around and singing bugle boy company b with Michael is cute.

Помню денёк через пару дней после этого Родился мой младший братишка Мама показывала его в окошко роддома Именно этот момент хорошо запомнился Февраль, снег, ссср, стекла роддома Где-то там высоко светит тусклое солнце... Эх.. Времена.. Мне тогда было три года Этим ребятам весело было проводить время в то же самое время Здорово

Love the Holden Caulfied hat.

Is that sensei kreese at 0:19?

are you ok?

Oldest blogger videos

Very good singing. Opera.

So nelson died? Is this true? Then who uploaded these videos in this channel?

Bud Mellman at the port authority bus station on Letterman is hi larry ous

Dam ur cool what about the videos in the 90s

daily vlog

musto's face rots the screen.... i used to see the blonde/beret doorman at the brambles ev nite

who owns this account???

Bro you haven’t aged a bit post a video of you now

Who was that with Musto? St. James? That fella was a chameleon.

So is the Nelson guy just a random guy with a video camera who filmed his everyday life? Or is this guy a somebody and because I'mpretty a nobody I don't know who he is..?

Ik this is a dumb ass question but... Is he still alive? O-o

lol they're awful. At least they're having a good time :)

Hope it didn't smell like a bus terminal

Bowling alley at a bus station?, weird.

Michael Musto is so lame and uncool in any decade.

17cents so expensive for 1986

Strewth, what a big sausage.