Triangle Club

Status: Closed

Parish: Lafayette

Location: Scott

DL Menard: “We (Badeaux and the Louisiana Aces) played there for about seven years- furthest we went north.”

It was a red brick building across from the fruit stand. Hubert Maitre’s father owned it- he lives in Scott.

Bobby & Marella Caffey: We saw lots of band there- regular bands were Walter Mouton, Donny Broussard, Johnny Sonnier, Bill Peltier, Belton Richard, and Doc Guidry. It was all French music in there- always a lot of Cajuns in there Chere! I think that it was named for the shape of the bar. The original owner drowned at Holly Beach. Back in the day, places would pay YOU to have a wedding dance in their dancehall- so they could make money off the drinks. I think the Triangle started having sewage problems and it cost too much to fix- so the late owner Jimmy Gates shut it down.”

LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment by Paul Nelson: “It was 1968-69ish.. My wife and I had been married for about 2 years. Our best friends were Jay and Sparky Arceneaux. One weekend, us young new weds stayed in Rayne. On Sat nite, Jay took us to the Triangle Club where we were the youngest people in there by decades. We learned the two step without breaking too many toes. We drove back to his mothers home late that nite under the stars in his Chevy convertible…top down…stars up…I nite I shall always remember!

Mitch and Chad Cormier at the Triangle Club, 1985