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Steel City Vice

@steelcityvice.com

Finding and telling the stories about the Ohio River Valley's organized crime history. Curated by @davidrotenstein.bsky.social. Lucky number: 805. steelcityvice.com

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 24/11/2025

Steel City Vice is now @covertnky.com. New home base, new and expanded content and same historical themes.

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 12/11/2025

Of course there was a long-lived gambling club in Covington, Kentucky, called the Press Club. Gambling arrests began in the 1940s and continued under new ownership & a new name (New Press Club) for another 25 years!

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 05/11/2025

Was crooked attorney Charles Lester (played by actor Wallace Shawn) who represented mobsters on two CBS dramas based on a real-life crooked attorney Charles Lester Jr. who represented mobsters in post-Prohibition Northern Kentucky? 🗃️

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 14/11/2024

A new kind of trivia game: guess the mobster by his criminal case card!

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 30/09/2024

We had a lively group of South Siders on last weekend's South Side by the Numbers walking tour. We paused in front of the former Lotus Club for a group photo. 📸 by Laura Hussey via Ashley Cortazzo.

Walking tour participants pause in front of the former Lotus Club on Pittsburgh's South Side.

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 10/09/2024

There's lots more than mob history to see & hear on the South Side by the Numbers walking tour. Learn about life in the South Side during the 20th century where millions of workers had to take second & third jobs to make ends meet in buildings like this one. Tour info link in the comments.

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 15/03/2024

Spring means it's walking tour season.

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 09/01/2024

In 1933 bank robber Willie Sutton spent a little time in Braddock, Pa. What made the biggest impression on him during his brief stay? Numbers gambling, of course. wordpress.com/post/steelci...

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Steel City Vice @steelcityvice.com · 13/10/2023

Did this Sept. 1939 prizefight change the course of organized crime history in Pittsburgh? Follow @yinzervice.bsky.social on Bluesky for some clues next week.

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