Twist-a-go-go

Black club- Mentioned in “The News of News” 1973 ...

Unknown Hall

South of Duralde & Eunice- dancehall & racetrack ...

Four Corners Club

Megan Brown’s grandmom: Sherry Fruge: South of DI’s- corner of 97 & 98 west of Iota- teen night where Cookie & the Cupcakes, Rod Bernard- early to mid 1960s (NE corner):1956 & 1957- Tuesday teen night ...

College Inn

Joyce Zeringue- opened 1946- more nightclub but dancing too- 424 Jackson Street- corner of West 1st Street & Jackson: http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110819/ENTERTAINMENT/110819486 ...

Foundry

Rodney Daigle: I danced there- country music ...

Frost’s Hall

Newspaper mention of dance in The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, September 29, 1900 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/ Newspaper mention of dance in The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, June 8, 1901 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1901-06-08/ed-1/seq-4/ ...

Hook and Ladder Company Hall

Newspaper item mentioning a dance in The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, September 8, 1900 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-08/ed-1/seq-4/ ...

Pavillion

Maria Zeringue’s grandmom Myra Blanchard- near courthouse- mostly for young people- jitterbug- all kinds of bands- swamp pop mostly- sold and moved down the bayou to LaRose- now it is the Safari ...

Sugarbowl

Carol Fran and husband/saxophonist Joe Francois performed R&B there in the mid-1950s: part of the Louisiana “crawfish circuit.” In her autobiography, “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story,” James mentions that she and her band lived above the club while on a tour of the South in the 1950s. ...