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DL Menard: “I’ve been there- it was at the beginning of Breaux Bridge. I played there- as a matter of fact- our fiddle player told us that Hank Williams just died (January 1, 1953). Playing with Freddy Tauzin in those days.” Owner was Kearney (Fatty) Thibodeaux. In English, it was called “the top.” It was a circular building that looked something like a spinning top. Located in the area where the fruit stand is on the Breaux Bridge highway now. ...

Terry Duhon mentioned going there ...

Listed on “Night Clubs I Remember”: http://louisianamusic.yolasite.com/night-clubs-i-remember.php ...

Marty Guidry: About 1953 Mulate Guidry moved his Rendezvous Club from Henderson to nearby Breaux Bridge and renamed it Mulate’s. Mulate’s was both a restaurant and dance hall located at 325 West Mills Avenue (LA Highway 94) in Breaux Bridge. In 1980 Kerry Boutte purchased Mulate’s and expanded it. In 2011 it was purchased by the long-time manager Jimmy LaGrange and renamed Pont Breaux’s, but it’s still the same fine Cajun restaurant and dance hall with some of the best Cajun bands playing there. I remember hearing Oran “Doc” Guidry, the premier Cajun fiddler, playing there in the 1980s. Old dancehall before- moved there for restaurant & added onto. Mentioned in “Louisiana Fiddlers”: Lionel Leleux played there in the Mulate Playboys with Don Montoucet, U.J. Guidry, and Sim Schexneyder. Previously known as The Wandering Aces, the band changed it’s name after beginning to play at Mulate’s after Lawrence Walker’s death in 1968 from a heart attack. Outtakes of Alan Lomax’s “Cajun Country” show Octa Clark and Hector Duhon playing there in 1983: ...

Bridge Bar now- Marion Martin: went to Jr. High Dance there- card room ...

Terry Duhon mentioned going there ...

Henderson highway: This club was run by Mulatte Guidry before he opened what is now Mulatte’s- “We’d ‘rendez-foo’ (act crazy) at the Rendez-vous'”- Phyllis Marty Guidry: Henry GuidryÕs brother Edwin ÒMulateÓ Guidry owned the Rendezvous Club on the Henderson Highway in the early 1950s. Here one could hear Cajun music played by some of the finest bands in the area and watch dancers waltz across the wooden dance floor. ...

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 ...

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