near Carencro: 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.” ...
Guilbeau’s Hall
Newspaper mention from The Lafayette Gazette, Lafayette, February 2, 1895 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064111/1895-02-02/ed-1/seq-3/ ...
La Boucane
Hollis Boudreaux- “Mr. Darby ran a nice place, benefits and fund raisers were common there in the 90’s. Carl Hollier, Glen Cormier, Sheryl Cormier, Ivy Dugas and the Cajun Cousins when they came out with the Old Gravel Road played there. They had a fund raiser for Damon Troy for his first new accordion. It was a packed house that day and many other days and nights also. Then it became Wranglers, but with the same owner. I passed by there a month ago and it’s a car lot now.” Kristi Guillory: “It was on University, later called Wranglers- now a used car dealership.” Johnnie Allan photo: I-AL-D.045 ...
RR lounge
early 1960s black club, Lil Buck & his Top Cats, Living Blues photo p. 18 ...
Sibille’s Hall
Dr. James B. Aswell, candidate for Louisiana Govenor, scheduled to speak there December 22, 1911: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1911-12-22/ed-1/seq-1/ Dance in May, 1907: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1907-05-15/ed-1/seq-5/ Bachelor Maids Dance May 4, 1904: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1904-05-04/ed-1/seq-8/ Dance held Feb 1906 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1906-02-14/ed-1/seq-8/ Shirtwaist Dance: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1904-08-24/ed-1/seq-5/ : 1903: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064111/1903-07-04/ed-1/seq-4/ : 1901: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064111/1901-04-27/ed-1/seq-1/ ...
St. Joseph Church Hall
Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption:The Misfits, St. Joseph Church Hall, Carencro, circa 1962 (L-R): Arnold Bernard, Bud Chandler, Wallace Broussard, Harold Arceneaux, Frank Pryor, Aurelien “T-Gid” Guidry, Gill Castille ...
Woodmen of the World
Newspaper mention about dance there: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1909-09-07/ed-1/seq-3/ ...
Woody Wood Club
Dudley Duhon: on the Vermilion River. I played guitar there on New Year’s Eve with AB Sonnier & the Louisiana Swingsters. There was chicken wire surrounding the bandstand. No one threw bottles at us while we played. Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. ...
Wrangler’s
Univ. Ave. North of I-10 ...
La Poussierre
Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Photos by John Sharp Included in Emily Ardoin’s 2014 thesis “Fais do-do to ‘Hippy Ti-Yo’: Dance Halls of South Louisiana”: “La Poussierre is located on the parish highway in Breaux Bridge and features mostly Cajun music. The original building across the street from the current location was opened in 1955 and the new building was opened in 1975 and remains active currently. The building is of brick construction, has aside gabled, metal roof, not parapet, and has a concrete slab foundation. The dance floor is constructed of wood strips and the bar is located in same room as the dancefloor. It is in good shape. New building constructed in 1975 across the street from original building, which was torn down for street widening. Original building was a 1920s grocery store converted to a dance hall in 1955.” Bobby & Marella Caffey & Eldine & Ernest (Ben) Benoit: ” I was at the original hall across the road from where it is now. My wife went to the bathroom and the band started up. I saw this really good looking woman and I asked her to dance. She was a good dancer and I asked where she learned how to dance. She said ‘To the Triangle Club!’ She smiled really big and didn’t have any teeth!” La Poussiere Cajun Dancehall website ...