From www.garagehangover.com: Famous for the ‘Boom Boom Room’- Shreveport garage band The Group/Noel Odom and the Group played there. Located on “The Strip.” ...
Stork Club
From www.garagehangover.com: Tom Durr from Bossier City garage band The Tremoloes played drum gigs there in a trio while in the musician’s union in the late 1960s ...
Teen Club
From www.garagehangover.com: at Barksdale Airforce Base? Bossier City garage band The Tremoloes played there some time around 1964 ...
Gold Room
Town & Country Motor Hotel: Friday, August 4, 1972 Shreveport Jounal ad: Jerry Arnold & the Stone Fountain: Dine and Dance: Open 2 PM ’til 2 AM Monday thru Saturday ...
Old Presbyterian Church Dancehall
Unknown Dancehall name- established (date unknown) in the old Presbyterian Church- after the Bowie racetrack was closed- music was provided by anyone who could play an accordion or fiddle. (Memories revisted: Raceland & Bowie II, Cortez & Rybiski) ...
Boyce Town Hall
Newspaper item about a dance there, 1902: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064176/1902-11-08/ed-1/seq-1/ ...
Braithwaite Park Pavilion
From “Louisiana: A Guide to the State”: “…WPA built recreation area containing picnic grounds, a bathing beach, tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a dance pavilion.” ...
GJ’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 ...
Boundary Club
Pierre LeBlanc built the Boundary Club on the Breaux Bridge highway on the left just across the parish line in the early 1940s. Jules Savoy from New Orleans was a popular singer there, singing mostly contemporary popular music. A Miss Trahan cooked gumbo each weekend. Shorty Johnson ran gaming tables. Later run by Joseph Walters. Contemporary of Webster’s. ...
Broken Spoke
Breaux Bridge highway- previously was Kaiser’s ...