Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series about bygone music venues in Pittsburgh.
If you stood at the corner of Atwood and Sennott streets in Oakland today, looking at the building that stands at 223 Atwood St., you’d never know that it was once the center of Pittsburgh’s musical universe.
The Decade may have closed in 1995, but the bar, restaurant and music venue was so well-loved and mythically remembered that patrons far and wide still talk about it in reverent tones…