legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 80055 posts
Tue Mar-03-15 03:12 PM
58. "its wild to everyone who comes home with us for the first time" In response to In response to 9
It's a small white town/village 15 miles outside Pittsburgh with a strong Black community.
Our grandparents partied together, our parents partied together and all the kids would play together so it was normal.
My grandfather and his crew sat on the bar/VFW steps with their pistols in view.
Our parents would tend bar while we played outside and watched the softball games. My uncle popped the trunk on this white softball team from Ohio who tried to run up on them with bats because my uncle had a whistle and wouldn't stop blowing it. Literally did the "ohhh, so you wanna use bats"
They never came back, we still laugh about it.
I probably had one of the best childhoods ever. Shit was like Wonder Years and Cooley High.
we grew up playing/swimming at a community center right across the street from our Black VFW that had a bar. You could get a double shot of Grey Goose for $3.75 3 or 4 years ago before they realized what was going on. Mini pitchers of Long Island for $6.
Back in the day when Coltrane, Dizzy, etc would play in Pittsburgh at the white clubs, they would come down to our spot to play late night gigs.
Every birthday our parents had was at this bar and we would all show up.
A few years ago before it closed a white friend I grew up with showed up with a friend of ours and this dude didn't even know this place existed. He was blown away when we told him it was her all our lives.