Dancehalls in Iberia Parish

Teche Club

DL Menard saw Hank Williams play there- “It costs a lot of money to go to the clubs. I was working and paid my own way to go see Hank Williams Sr. It cost me three dollars and my autogrpahed picture I bought cost fifty cents. In 1951. It was just country stars back then- now superstars like they have today. You can’t imagine $3 in 1951. The one who brought me there didn’t have $3 to go in, but I was working in the fields making my own money so I could go. I talked with him (Williams) for about 10 minutes. He was a real nice fella- he talked to everybody. One thing he told me and I’ll never forget- the more popular you get, the more you need to talk to the people. It’s not cats and dogs who buy them records! The more you talk to the people the more records you sell. I asked Hank to sing ‘She’ll never take her love from me’ and he did- he sang it low- not high like he recorded it.” lots of fights, burned down- Bobby & Marella Caffey & Eldine & Ernest (Ben) Benoit: the woman who owned it lost two husbands in similar accidents. There was a huge fan up in the ceiling and it ‘accidentally’ got turned on while they were working on it.” ...

Tijuana Club

From iberianet.com/forum/do-you-remember: “ÉTeqiuana Night Club on West MainÉ” ...

Wild Wild West

possible club- 12620 Louisiana 339- corner of E. Conrad & 339 ...

Felix Saloon & Dancehall

Newspaper mention concerning suspect being arrested there from the Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, January 17, 1896 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1896-01-17/ed-1/seq-1/ Corner of Jefferson & Madison Streets ...

Glass Front

Photo courtesy of Sarah Fox Sarah Fox: “The Glass Front was my grandparents’ (Eugene Miguez and Maria Hebert Miguez) restaurant/dance hall in New Iberia in 1925. They had dance cards for 10 cents and if you danced to close my grandmother would separate the patrons. The Glass Front was located across the street from Bertrand Lumber Co on Main Street. Along with Coleman’s Cafe and Guidroz’s Restaurant (Michael and Marius Guidroz were the first to serve crawfish in Louisiana in 1924) served free meals to the needy during the Great Depression.” ...

Dears’

Located at the corner of Dear & Main Streets- bowling alley & nightclub- there before & after WW2 ...

Club Sho Boat

Shane Bernard: “In the 1940s-50s there was an old steamboat (or diesel-powered riverboat that looked like a steamboat) that was moored in New Iberia and operated as a nightclub and restaurant. It was called Club Show Boat. Mr. George Angelle who owned the boat; he even had a taxi to pick up people in town (I guess it was located on the outskirts of town at the time) to bring them to the club, which featured “Cajun swing” music by Happy Fats LeBlanc, Doc Guidry and their band. Mr. Angelle was murdered in the early ’50s and the Sho Boat was torn down a couple years later. Supposedly its hull still remains in the ground, because it was razed to the waterline, and then the slip with the hull was filled in with dirt and debris. Located at 1500 E. Main Street (currently the Showboat Apartments)” http://bayoutechedispatches.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-floating-dancehall-on-teche-club-sho.html ...