Papa Paul’s Club

Status: Closed

Parish: Evangeline

Location: Mamou

Zydeco club- on 13- corner of Ponciana and 2nd Street: Included in Emily Ardoin’s 2014 thesis “Fais do-do to ‘Hippy Ti-Yo’: Dance Halls of South Louisiana”: Papa Paul’s was a zydeco dancehall in Mamou that opened in the 1950s and closed in the 1990s.It is currently vacant and serves as storage. The construction is frame, the roof is the stepped gable, metal variety, the parapet stepped, and the foundation is comprised of concrete piers. The dancefloor is made of wood strips. The exterior is mostly unaltered, but the stage and bar have removed inside.”

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Photo Credit: John Sharp