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Multi-use hall on south east corner of Bridge Street and Main (then Main 30-32 & Bridge 121 & 123) next to confectionary- info from 1907 Breaux Bridge Sanborn Insurance Map ...

Listed in “Readers recall clubs where they danced to Louisiana Music” from The Daily Advertiser, December 29, 1998: “Readers of The Daily Advertiser were asked to submit names of’ the clubs where they danced to Louisiana music in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with a brief recollection of what the club was like and who played there.” Back from the main part of town- possibly on Cherry Street. It was very popular at one time. ...

Bridge Bar now- Marion Martin: went to Jr. High Dance there- card room ...

Marty Guidry: About 1953 Mulate Guidry moved his Rendezvous Club from Henderson to nearby Breaux Bridge and renamed it Mulate’s. Mulate’s was both a restaurant and dance hall located at 325 West Mills Avenue (LA Highway 94) in Breaux Bridge. In 1980 Kerry Boutte purchased Mulate’s and expanded it. In 2011 it was purchased by the long-time manager Jimmy LaGrange and renamed Pont Breaux’s, but it’s still the same fine Cajun restaurant and dance hall with some of the best Cajun bands playing there. I remember hearing Oran “Doc” Guidry, the premier Cajun fiddler, playing there in the 1980s. Old dancehall before- moved there for restaurant & added onto. Mentioned in “Louisiana Fiddlers”: Lionel Leleux played there in the Mulate Playboys with Don Montoucet, U.J. Guidry, and Sim Schexneyder. Previously known as The Wandering Aces, the band changed it’s name after beginning to play at Mulate’s after Lawrence Walker’s death in 1968 from a heart attack. Outtakes of Alan Lomax’s “Cajun Country” show Octa Clark and Hector Duhon playing there in 1983: ...