Autocrat

African American club- Featured in the 1949 Negro Motorist Green Book: 1609 LaHarpe Street 1958 photo of many members of the Lawrence Marrero Polo Barnes New Orleans Jazz Band rehearsing at the Autocrat Club is in the Ralston Crawford Jazz Photography collection in the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University. http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16313coll4/id/599/rec/34 ...

Bagnetto’s

Early jazz hall: south corner of S. Rampart (Circus) & Girod (Notre Dame): Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...

BarbaraÕs_

Jazz club in “Black Storyville”: North corner of Gravier and Franklin: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...

El Club Seville

From iberianet.com/forum/do-you-remember: “El Club Seville on West Main during the early 70’s. Billy John and The Everyday People was a regular popular band there. Had some really great times there.Was always jam packed for the Fais-do-do at Sugar Cane Festival time.” ...

Golden Pheasant

From iberianet.com/forum/do-you-remember: “Anyone remember the club ‘Our Gang’?- it was on Highway 182 and used to be the Golden Pheasant. Waaaay back when- off 182 by the Navy Base and in the woods by Spanish Lake.” ...

Golden Wheel

Found in “Hustling to Survive” by Robert E. Maguire: Late 70s disco place with DJs- Doctor Boogie & Dr. Jam- poster in Maguire ...

Jungle Club

A Mexican entertainer, Filo Gonzalez, was a regular here- Bobby & Marella Caffey & Eldine & Ernest (Ben) Benoit: DL Menard- right in the middle of town on Center Street- where Arceneaux Ford is now. The only one I remember that would play in there regular was Al Perry. ...

Leo’s

Linda LeBlanc: 60’s, diverse ages, Black crowd, I saw Ike and Tina Turner there for $.50!!! concert venue, bring your own bottle, ice, mixers. ...

Mrs. Octave “Gugeche” Boutte’s Dancehall

Mentioned in the New Iberia book, chapter by Louis Paul Bryant: corner of Julia & Hacker Streets; sometimes rented foor private affairs, but generally held a dance every Saturday and Sunday night. The band was a trio: Joe LeBlanc on fiddle, and another fiddle and accordionist. They played on a bandstand fashioned from the frame of an old four post bed with a canopy. The mattresses were removed and replaced with a wooden deck. Food was distributed: gumbo, coffee, & anisette. ...