Leon’s

Don Gassie: Across Highway 90 and the railroad track from The Four Roses. A fairly peaceful bar and pool room that attracted younger people from Lafayette and all the way to Rayne ...

Ranch

Alex Broussard- on road in front of Judice School to Duson on Right- bingo hall now ...

Duson Dancing Hall

Newspaper item clipping about dance given by Woodmen of the World of Duson, from The Daily Advertiser, May 24, 1912: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1912-05-24/ed-1/seq-1/ ...

Four Roses Club

Photo of Four Roses site, circa 2018 LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment by Joan LeBlanc: “My mom was from Duson she and my dad met there. Dad is 86, and has pictures they took in front of The Four Roses when they celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary.” Don Gassie: “The Four Roses was on the south side of Highway 90 in Duson and often would feature Aldus Roger. People tended to be older and fairly well dressed. I remember a fight there between two middle-aged men. I heard only french at the Four Roses. Near Fieldspan & Elton Road.” ...

Unknown Hall

Newspaper mention about dance there, 1909: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034248/1909-04-24/ed-1/seq-3/ ...

Sam Dauzat’s Club

Alton Dupuy: It was an old, straight-board, unpainted honky tonk in the mid 1950s. Chester Lachney was the band leader, his brother Herman, and JT Guillot played with him. I don’t remember there being Cajun music- just old country. The owner, Dauzat, died and they shut the place down. There is a house there now where it used to be. ...

Unknown Dancehall

Mentioned in newspaper story about acquitted killers: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064402/1918-11-23/ed-1/seq-1/ Newspaper story about dancehall being shot by police: managerhttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064402/1918-08-09/ed-1/seq-1/ ...