As long as you kicked-up the Old Man didn't give shit if you were green. Besides, numbers were always really big business in the Black community.
I remember the black bar down on Larimer Ave @ Meadow St. right next to the Red Eagle. They were both numbers hot spots. I always found it interesting that a black bar could peacefully exist in the midst of Pittsburgh's Little Italy.
Larimer Ave is where most of the Pittsburgh crew that went to Charlies Roost every year. I don't know your age, but I'm guessing that some of your family knew those guys.
"Never walk in a room that you don't know how to get out of"- Henry Zottola
