Green Wing Club

Iry LeJeune and JB Fusielier played there on Friday nights with some previous members of Fusieleier’s old band: J.B. and the Merrymakers. LeJeune and Fusilier were changing a flat tire (five miles west of Eunice on 190) after playing at the Green Wing Club when the car was struck- killing LeJeune and seriously injuring Fuselier. October 8, 1955. ...

Homer’s

corner of Nimitz & Laurel (190) ...

Lakeview Club

On 13 North of Eunice,- Lakeview Park and Beach: Fred Bellow owner- bar at both ends, KBON Priscilla Alleman- wedding dance there- cash only- hole in the ceiling above stage for Mark Savoy to stand up. Now in RV park. Included in Emily Ardoin’s 2014 thesis “Fais do-do to ‘Hippy Ti-Yo’: Dance Halls of South Louisiana”: “The Lakeview Club is a Cajun dancehall located in a recreational vehicle park that features a man made lake for swimming. The hall opened in 1963 and closed around 1990. The building featured two bars. It is currently vacant but is plans to rehabilitate is are in the works. The building is of frame construction, has a cross gabled and metal roof, no parapet, and has a concrete pier foundation. The dance floor is constructed of wood strips. New owners are preparing to restore. Applied for a grant a few years ago based on historic significance (don’t know from whom) and was denied because too much of the original material had been removed. Siding and roof have been changed; porch removed or added/closed in. Some of the original flooring is removed. Ceiling is removed. Partition between dance hall and restaurant removed. Original dance hall was reportedly assembled from two bars relocated from Basile in the 1960s. Original attic fans, bars and bathrooms are there. Siding & roof are new with minor modifications in floor plan. Original ceiling removed. Anecdote about hole cut in original ceiling because Marc Savoy was so tall.” ...

Miller’s Beer Garden

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.” Mayaus LeBoeuf owned it ...

National Guard Armory

Second annual Teenage Jamboree, 1957, 1958, & 1959, Photos from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: ...

Reed’s Hall

Newspaper mention of a dance given to Woodmen of the World there, 1906: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1906-05-26/ed-1/seq-3/ ...