Tabor’s Hall

Newspaper mention of dance: 1900: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/ : 1901: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1901-06-29/ed-1/seq-1/ : 1902: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1902-05-17/ed-1/seq-1/ ...

Unknown Hall

Maria’s Grandmom, Joyce Zeringue, danced there ...

Woodmen Hall

Newspaper mention of city council objecting to indecent dancing there, 1921: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034248/1921-01-15/ed-1/seq-2/ ...

Diamond Horseshoe

Rodney Daigle: swamp pop- current- St. Patrick Hwy (west side?) ...

Foret’s Dancehall

Joyce Zeringue- closed around 1951- on Tetreau Street near East Junior High School now in middle of town- little kids went with parents- nickel a dance- bar for of age- orchestra played all kinds of music- torn down after closing. ...

Circle Club

mentioned in Today’s Cajuns: From http://www.hechicero.com/louisiana/sundownplayboys.html: “Lionel Cormier died onstage June 5, 1971, at the Bamboo Club in Lake Charles. The occasion was the city’s annual Cajun Day, one of several events held each year to celebrate with hours of non-stop French music and hundreds of cases of beer. According to stories, Mr. Cormier’s band, the Sundown Playboys, were in the middle of La Derniere Valse (The Last Waltz) when his time came. Contrary to the sometimes-encountered belief, however, he had just finished pumping out the Church Point Two-Step when he had his heart attack.” (The Circle Club is) “an enormous aluminum building next to Interstate 10 at Toomey, La., near the Texas border. The dance hall’s partially burnt out neon sign gives the place an unintentionally French name, ‘le Club.'” Sundown Playboys played there every other Saturday night. Mentioned in Macon Fry’s” Cajun Country Guide” as a cock fighting club owned by Delane Navarre. An internet bulletin board mentions the club as hosting a pool tournament in the cock fighting area. ...

Unknown club

Mentioned in “Louisiana Fiddlers” by Ron Yule and Bill Burge: Ed Johnson recalled that Country fiddler Bob Henderson played at a club in Turkey creek, name unknown, during 1948 and 1949. “The band included Jimmy Johnson, (electric guitar and fiddle), Happy McNichol (drums), Pete Singley (upright bass) and Bob (fiddle and guitar).” ...

Barras Dancehall

Lian Cheramie: “In the 30’s and early 1940 it was in Leroy (where North Vermilion High School is now) and it was called the ‘Barras Dancehall.’ Then in 1940 they moved it to Nunez (outside of Kaplan) and it was the ‘Air-o-way Club’.” Rena L. Bertrand: “It was located on Hwy. 14.” ...