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Included in a 2006 Louisiana Cajun dance hall list compiled by WYNK Cajun DJ “Tee Mick” Abed, sent to me in personal correspondence from David Marcantel ...

African American club- Featured in the 1949 Negro Motorist Green Book: Corner of Jackson and S. Claiborne Avenue ...

1951 photo of Robert Parker on the tenor saxophone and Lonnie Bolden on the alto saxophone jamming at the Tiajuna Club is in the Ralston Crawford Jazz Photography collection in the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University. http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16313coll4/id/229/rec/5 Mentioned here: http://blog.ponderosastomp.com/2011/05/rising-tides-threaten-the-swamp-pop/ ...

French Quarter Jazz hall on north side of Iberville between Dauphone & Bourbon: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...

Gretna social hall that featured jazz ...

Irish Channel social hall that featured jazz played by white working class musicians from the neighborhood ...

From the New Orleans Jazz History Decatur Street/ Vieux Carre Walking Tour brochure: “Originally the fashionable Ursuline Row designed by Gurlie and Guillot c.1831, the Decatur St. nightclub area came about because of the French Market, the demise of the Gallatin St. district, the derelict nature of the lower French Quarter in the early 1900s, and the closeness to the wharves. By the 1930’s the street had many bars and small dance halls with jazz bands. This club was one of that number.” ...

From the New Orleans Jazz History Business District/Back o’ Town Walking Tour brochure: 121 Royal Street: “Designed by William Fitzner in 1891, this early hostelry at one time extended through the block to Bourbon St. It was a meeting place for both politicians and social observers such as Mark Twain. Music figured prominently here for dining and entertainment.” ...

Central Business District theater that featured minstrel shows, ragtime, vaudeville, and jazz: ...

1930s Jazz hall on west corner of Dryades & Common: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...