Club Sho Boat

Status: Closed

Parish: Iberia

Location: New Iberia

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

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Photo Credit: I.A. Martin