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401 Sixth Street; 337-468-5100: hotelcazan.com: Cajun bands early Saturday afternoon ...

Photos by John Sharp Still open! At one time, the Holiday had a statue of Edwin Edwards on top of it. Women painted on the walls- restaurant was half- rooms out on the side ...

Photos by John Sharp From “Images of America: Ville Platte”, Arcadia Publishing, 2014 by Jean Keisel and Jane Vidrine: “This unimposing building is Fred’s Lounge, a fixture in Mamou since 1946, when Alfred “Fred” Tate purchased this old red-brick bar on Sixth Street. Here Fred and his friends Revon Reed and Paul Tate made plans to revive the Courir de Mardi Gras in Mamou in 1950. Reed began broadcasting a live radio program featuring Cajun music from the lounge in 1962…Inside the lounge, it’s a different world. After Fred’s death in 1992, his ex-wife, Sue Vavasseur, kept the lounge open on Saturday mornings so the braodcasts could continue. She is active today, passing around trays of boudin, bussing tables, and here, posing for a photograph (with customers)…Her pocket flask is part of the tradition, too.” KVPI broadcastsed from there: traditional Cajun bands on Saturday mornings & Mardi Gras day (Alex Cook) ...

Listed in “Readers recall clubs where they danced to Louisiana Music” from The Daily Advertiser, December 29, 1998: “Readers of The Daily Advertiser were asked to submit names of’ the clubs where they danced to Louisiana music in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with a brief recollection of what the club was like and who played there.” ...