From matchbook cover: Tiki Lounge Thibodaux, LA ...
Dancehalls in Lafourche Parish
Dano’s
Not much known- Free crab boil on Friday night Photos by Russell Lee, September 1938 U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black and White Photographs Lot 1683 Library of Congress Call Number: LC-USF33- 011654-M1 ...
Cheramie’s King Tut Saloon
Photo by Russell Lee, September 1938, Library of Congress Call Number: LC-USF33- 011637-M1 [P and P] Cheramie’s King Tut Saloon Curb Service Your Best and Last Chance Fine Drinks of all kinds Tourist Information ...
Pavillion
Maria Zeringue’s grandmom Myra Blanchard- near courthouse- mostly for young people- jitterbug- all kinds of bands- swamp pop mostly- sold and moved down the bayou to LaRose- now it is the Safari ...
College Inn
Joyce Zeringue- opened 1946- more nightclub but dancing too- 424 Jackson Street- corner of West 1st Street & Jackson: http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110819/ENTERTAINMENT/110819486 ...
Foundry
Rodney Daigle: I danced there- country music ...
Frost’s Hall
Newspaper mention of dance in The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, September 29, 1900 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/ Newspaper mention of dance in The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, June 8, 1901 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1901-06-08/ed-1/seq-4/ ...
Hook and Ladder Company Hall
Newspaper item mentioning a dance in The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, September 8, 1900 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-08/ed-1/seq-4/ ...
Sugarbowl
Carol Fran and husband/saxophonist Joe Francois performed R&B there in the mid-1950s: part of the Louisiana “crawfish circuit.” In her autobiography, “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story,” James mentions that she and her band lived above the club while on a tour of the South in the 1950s. ...
Tabor’s Hall
Newspaper mention of dance: 1900: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/ : 1901: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1901-06-29/ed-1/seq-1/ : 1902: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1902-05-17/ed-1/seq-1/ ...