Skyway Club

Status: Closed

Parish: Caddo

Location: Shreveport

Mentioned in “Louisiana Fiddlers” by Ron Yule and Bill Burge: (Owners Pete and Hilda”Peaches” Hardin) are most noted for the Skyway Club on Highway 80, which they operated during the Louisiana Hayride years of the late 1940s and 1950s. This club was frequented by Òeverybody who was anybodyÓ and wanted to party away from the Louisiana Hayride. Peaches recalls Hank Williams, a young Elvis Presley, Webb Pierce, Slim Whitman, and a host of other Hayride stars visiting the club. She believes Pete met Hank at the club, which led to his playing on the Hayride and at a few local dates with the Drifting Cowboys. She also noted that Hank played at the Skyway with Pete and his house band and that she had sung with both Hank and Elvis at the Skyway Club.”

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