Tee Maurice Club (Richard’s Casino)
Status: Closed
Parish: Lafayette
Location: Bosco
Twenty-five cents would get you a ride to and from the dance as well as admit you to it
Bobby & Marcella Caffey “There was a dancehall, bar & horse races too! They used it as a baseball field on Sunday. We used to watch Blackie Forestier play there.”
Mabel Babineaux- “I had a date at Tee Maurice- we were walking there together. My date put his arm around my waist and my aunt saw it from the wagon behind us. She told my mother- I was grounded for 6 months! I always had to ride in the wagon from then on to be supervised.”
Joe Besse: “Marais Bouler is an area in the Bosco oilfield of NE Acadia parish. There was no club by this name, but the nearest one to this area was “Richard’s Casino” which was a rough place. I went there once when I was an SLI freshman. I live about 3 miles from where this club was. There also was a dirt racetrack next to the club. It was on La Hwy 343 near Davis Seafood.”
LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment by Albert Meche: “I was born and raised in the Bosco are and still live there. The area was known as Marais Bouleur also. My father was a share cropper and would bartend on Saturday nights at Tee Maurice’s and the club La Lune. I went there many times.”
Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Cleveland Mire and the Jolly Boys of Bosco, 1938, Te-Maurice (Richard’s Casino), Bosco, (L-R): L.J. Daigle, Eugene Boullion, Cleveland Mire, Aldus “Popeye” Broussard, Courtesy Aldus and Bernice Roger
Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys- “Bosco Stomp”
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Photo Credit: Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Courtesy Aldus and Bernice Roger
Tami cuccio
Wanting to fine more photos or recordings on Cleveland mire and the jolly boys. My dad LJ daigle played with them .
WF
The Acadia Parish library has photos of your father playing with Cleveland Mire. I believe they are with the collection associated with the rice festival.
Mack Leger
Another dance hall not too far down the road from Bosco was the China Ball Club just outside of Bristol. My uncle built the club and we have been looking for pictures of the club when it was built. Unfortunately all pictures we had have been lost due to house fires or tornadoes.
Tony Daigle
It was in St. Landdry Parish about halfway between Bosco and Bristol, across the street from TeJean Hanks store. It was on La 343