Baum Building Interior before renovation (4)

"In the basement -- the space occupied for the past 23 years by the Pegasus bar -- there used to be a famous nightclub called the Copa, run by a well-known Pittsburgh entertainment figure named Leonard Litman. From 1948 to 1959, famous musicians and singers such as Frankie Laine, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Duke Ellington performed in Litman's Copa, he said. " - Tom Barnes, Post Gazette Staff Writer