Tuxedo Club

Status: Closed

Parish: St. Martin

Location: Parks

Was previously half of Dauphine’s dancehall- reopened in 1940 on the east side of the bayou by Rene Dauphine’s son- Morris. Morris was a member of Oscar Celestine’s Tuxedo Band in New Orleans and had recently recturned home to Parks. Aubrey Pearce- “it recently burned down. It was the largest dancehall in town. I went there with my father a few times when I was a child. The waiters wore gloves and there were private booths- seperated from the room by curtains. My parents attended a ball there for the eldrely put on by a local school teacher. The women wore gowns and the men suits. The Tennessee Waltz was the theme.. It was the late 1940s or early 1950s.”