Golden Wheel

Found in “Hustling to Survive” by Robert E. Maguire: Late 70s disco place with DJs- Doctor Boogie & Dr. Jam- poster in Maguire ...

Golden Pheasant

From iberianet.com/forum/do-you-remember: “Anyone remember the club ‘Our Gang’?- it was on Highway 182 and used to be the Golden Pheasant. Waaaay back when- off 182 by the Navy Base and in the woods by Spanish Lake.” ...

El Club Seville

From iberianet.com/forum/do-you-remember: “El Club Seville on West Main during the early 70’s. Billy John and The Everyday People was a regular popular band there. Had some really great times there.Was always jam packed for the Fais-do-do at Sugar Cane Festival time.” ...

Blue Moon Dancehall

Featured in Philip Gould’s book “Today’s Cajuns” are images of Aldus Roger & the Lafayette Playboys playing a benefit dance with door prize items in front of them, elderly couples dancing, people at bar, and women dancing together. It was located on Hopkins Street at a place that is now an empty lot. From a plaque at Vermilionville: “Blue Moon Dancehall was located in the ‘tit Coteau section of New Iberia near Admiral Doyle Drive. The club closed in the fall of 1978. Photographer Philip Gould describes his first visit in 1974: ‘The accordionist spoke nothing but French from the bandstand. Acity policeman and sheriff’s deputy, both hired as security, also helped the waitresses serve drinks when things were calm. I remember seeing the dancers there the first time. Collectively they seemed to suggest waves as they waltzed around the dance floor locked together in tight embraces.'” Mentioned in Project Louisiane tape #151, available at the Archive of Cajun and Creole Folklore, Center for Louisiana Studies, UL Lafayette. ...

Dears’

Located at the corner of Dear & Main Streets- bowling alley & nightclub- there before & after WW2 ...

Club Sho Boat

Shane Bernard: “In the 1940s-50s there was an old steamboat (or diesel-powered riverboat that looked like a steamboat) that was moored in New Iberia and operated as a nightclub and restaurant. It was called Club Show Boat. Mr. George Angelle who owned the boat; he even had a taxi to pick up people in town (I guess it was located on the outskirts of town at the time) to bring them to the club, which featured “Cajun swing” music by Happy Fats LeBlanc, Doc Guidry and their band. Mr. Angelle was murdered in the early ’50s and the Sho Boat was torn down a couple years later. Supposedly its hull still remains in the ground, because it was razed to the waterline, and then the slip with the hull was filled in with dirt and debris. Located at 1500 E. Main Street (currently the Showboat Apartments)” http://bayoutechedispatches.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-floating-dancehall-on-teche-club-sho.html ...

Casa Blanca Club

From iberianet.com/forum/do-you-remember: “I worked at the Casa Blanca club for 20 years when Barbara and Shelton Leleux had it. Served the last drink that was ever served there before they closed for good. Was working at the Tradewinds at the time but had to be there on the last night.” Located at the corner of Center Street and Admiral Doyle corner of Hwy 14 & Admiral Doyle- where Burger King is now ...