DL Menard: “We played the Jolly Rogers Club quite a bit. It was the first place that we sold copies of “La Porte d’en Arrire (The Back Door).” It cost $175 to record that song at Floyd Solieau’s studio in 1962. “The night we got that record we sold 300 copies @ $1 each! I got my money back that night! Mr. Badeau had to go and get some more! The next Saturday night we got to the Jolly Roger, the owner Simon Thibodaux said that when he opened the club that morning at 7:30 am to clean, a guy came in and played “The Back Door” on the jukebox and that was the only song that got played all day long. That night the crowd made me play “The Back Door” seven times! For a long time after that it was still playing it 5 or 6 times a night.” ...
Silver Dollar
No known information ...
Unknown Hall
Alton Dupuy: It was a huge dancehall- over by the Sabine River. I went there in the late 60s or early 70s. You could tell that it was past it’s prime but it was packed with people- lots of women. South from Starks on 109 towards the Gulf ...
Club Capricorn
Emily Ardoin: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Saint+Francisville,+LA&hl=en&ll=30.786403,-91.381509&spn=0.001652,0.00327&sll=30.307761,-97.753401&sspn=0.845323,1.674042&oq=saint+francisville,&t=h&hnear=St+Francisville,+West+Feliciana,+Louisiana&z=19&layer=c&cbll=30.786361,-91.381488&panoid=mJff6voBX4Rk87fsgzNkmg&cbp=12,29.6,,0,7.97 ...
Pythian Hall
Newspaper ad from 1919- music by Toots Johnson: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1919-06-14/ed-1/seq-3/ : Newspaper ad announcing dance series 1919: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1919-06-21/ed-1/seq-3/ : 1909: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1909-05-22/ed-1/seq-2/ : 1917: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1917-04-21/ed-1/seq-3/ : 1918: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1918-06-15/ed-1/seq-3/ ...
Magnolia Café
Live Cajun or roots music every Friday night (Alex Cook) 5689 Commerce Street, St. Francisville 225-635-6528 themagnoliacafe.net ...
Woodmen Hall
Newspaper item mentioning a dance to benefit the Red Cross, 1917: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034248/1917-05-26/ed-1/seq-2/ : Building fund benefit, September 1912: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034248/1912-09-07/ed-1/seq-13/ ...
Masonic Hall
Newspaper item about dance, from The Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, September 25, 1896 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1896-09-25/ed-1/seq-3/ Bud Scott dance ad from The Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, July 06, 1917 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1917-07-06/ed-1/seq-1/ Bud Scott dance review from The Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, May 19, 1916 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1916-05-19/ed-1/seq-5/ Newspaper item about kid’s dance lessons, from The Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, June 7, 1912 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1912-06-07/ed-1/seq-5/ Advertisement for dance after the last performance of a play- “Special Music” from The Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, May 25, 1917 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1917-05-25/ed-1/seq-6/ ...
Waterproof
Newspaper item mentions dance: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/1921-08-05/ed-1/seq-3/ ...
Bonin’s Dancehall
Newspaper item mention: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064454/1912-04-13/ed-1/seq-2/ Newspaper item mention: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064454/1913-04-12/ed-1/seq-3/ : 1917: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064454/1917-09-08/ed-1/seq-1/ ...