Nick’s

Cajun & Zydeco most Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons: 337-457-4921: http://nickson2nd.com/dancehall.html (Alex Cook) ...

Gilton’s

175 Janet Road: Closed but reopened: open in Feb 1997: Had raiseable chicken fighting area Boozoo Chavis had a song about it: “Gilton” on his 1990 self-titled album Beau Jocque at Gilton’s from Jean-Pierre Bruneau’s film “Louisiana Blues” ...

Purple Peacock

1467 E Laurel Avenue/ 3284 Hwy 190: Listed in the 1971 & 1989 Polk Eunice City Directory: Included in Emily Ardoin’s 2014 thesis “Fais do-do to ‘Hippy Ti-Yo’: Dance Halls of South Louisiana”: “The Purple Peacock is a swamp pop venue located on the highway in Eunice. It was opened in 1964 and still opens once a year (for a Mardi Gras dance). The building is of a frame construction, has a side gabled and metal roof, no parapet, and has a concrete pier foundation. The dance floor is constructed of wood strips. Overall interior layout is mostly the same, but the original bar was removed and two new bars were added. Some interior finishes have been altered, but the owner says the carpet on the walls is original (has been painted black). Exterior now clad with corrugated metal panels; rumored to have been wood siding originally.” ...

Four Corners

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.” ...

Midway Inn

Photos by John Sharp Jerry Michael Esthay: “Located on Hwy 97 after you cross Bayou- about a quarter mile on South side. It’s an old white building with farm farm equipment on & around it- brick house beside it. It was a contemporary of Pine Grove Inn Club.” ...

Pine Grove Inn

Jerry Michael Esthay: “My father and grandfather owned it. It opened in May 1946” ...

Veroni Dance Hall

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.” ...

African Queen

“Similarly the small black “jukes”—places like the African Queen in Ferriday—carried on a blues, hard drinking, and fist-fighting tradition, and like their white counterparts, were less cosmopolitan than the early clubs.”- Hiram Ford “Pete” Gregory, III http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/DeltaReflections-Nightclubs.html ...