Ruby’s

was Nicks (2nd Street) Dwayne Vidrine & Kirk Fontenot ...

White Oaks

John Hebert: Owned by Eraste “Doc” Segura- located on Avery Island Road Josh Caffery: “White Oaks Bar and Grocery on the Avery Island Road, owned by Phyllis Bourque, grand-daughter of Julien Hoffpauir and also descended from the Seguras. The original White Oaks was a grocery/dancehall run by a Segura ancestor and would have been around in the 1930s. Area is known as White Oaks because of enormous White Oaks supposedly planted by Jean Lafitte!” ...

Bijou Dance Hall

Mentioned in the “History of Vermilion Parish, La. Vol. 2”: located on the corner of Broadway and Edwards- it was destroyed by fire in 1938, along with the Erath school annex and Cap’s Confectionery ...

Boni’s Club

west of Erath, was owned by Boniface Suire LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment – Michael Juan Nunez: “‘Suires Camp’ and ‘Boni’s Club’ are one and the same. It’s a cinder block hall, in the woods south of Erath. I have been to numerous functions there.” ...

Dud’s Drive In

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette D.L. Menard: Turned in Simon Broussard’s Club afterward- Sim’s- “We played there for a heck of a long time” ...

Eraste Guitterez’s

Included in a 2006 Louisiana Cajun dance hall list compiled by WYNK Cajun DJ “Tee Mick” Abed, sent to me in personal correspondence from David Marcantel ...

Red Carpet Lounge

Hollis Boudreaux- “halfway Erath and Delcambre. I forget who first owned it, but it was a first class dance hall. Then Smiley Menard took it over and kept the Cajun music going, I can remember setups back then were 20 to 25 dollars, depending on which whiskey you wanted. A waitress would bring to your table a bottle of whiskey, cokes or 7 Up and a bucket of ice. You made your drinks however strong you wanted. Now that was the good ole days !!!” ...

Sim’s Dance Hall

Included in a 2006 Louisiana Cajun dance hall list compiled by WYNK Cajun DJ “Tee Mick” Abed, sent to me in personal correspondence from David Marcantel ...

Smiley’s

2206 Veteran’s Memorial Drive: Included in Emily Ardoin’s 2014 thesis “Fais do-do to ‘Hippy Ti-Yo’: Dance Halls of South Louisiana”: “Smily’s Bayou Club is located on the highway outside Erath. It features swamp pop and Cajun music. It opened in 1978 and is currently open. The building is of brick construction, has a hip/asphalt shingled roof, no parapet, and has a concrete slab foundation. The dance floor is constructed of wood strips. The bar and dance floor are located in the same room. The exterior is in good condition” Hollis Bodreaux- “Good times in that place. Only opened on the weekends for the dances, Smiley Menard ran a old fashioned Cajun dance hall. Top Cajun bands from the area would provide the entertainment, the Touchet Brothers, Donny Broussard and the Louisiana stars and well you get the idea it’s no longer there but he carried it over to the red carpet lounge between Erath and Delcambre La.” (Hwy. 14) Swamp Pop the 2nd and 4th Saturday night- Cajun every Sunday ...