Dancehalls in Evangeline Parish

Unknown Dancehall

Dancehall on east side of 6th Street (then 89 6th Street) between Mulberry and Hackberry Ave.- across from E. Tate & Co. Rice Huller & Corn Mill- info from Oct 1919 Mamou Sanborn Insurance Map- gone by 1927 map ...

Woodsmen of the World

WOW Hall on north side of Chestneu Avenue (then 502 Chestnut) between 5th & 6th Streets- next to a garage- info from June 1927 Mamou Sanborn Insurance Map ...

Green Oaks

Phots courtesy of Richard Deshotels High School Seniors twisting & outside on graduation night 1962 ...

Triangle Club

713 Frilot Cove Road Virgie Mayon: “I had to wait for my youngest sister to be old enough (at 9 years old) before I could go to the Triangle Club. We got there and as soon as I got asked to dance- Iwas so excited that I’d run out onto the floor.” Included in Emily Ardoin’s 2014 thesis “Fais do-do to ‘Hippy Ti-Yo’: Dance Halls of South Louisiana”: This hall featured zydeco and is currently used to store hay bales. The building is in fair condition, features a metal roof, and the exterior appears to be unaltered.” Listed in “Readers recall clubs where they danced to Louisiana Music” from The Daily Advertiser, December 29, 1998. ...

Club Morris

Ardoin family dancehall- mentioned in Today’s Cajun- Philip Gould- 1980 ...

Joseph Young’s house dance

Newspaper item about two men being shot at house dance in St. Landry Clarion., February 10, 1906 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1906-02-10/ed-1/seq-2/ ...

Dancehall & Moving Pictures

Dancehall on south side on Main Street (then #228) between 1st & 2nd Streets- barber in front of hall on left if facing- across from General Store- info from 1922 Chataignier Sanborn Insurance Map ...

Cajun Frontier

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Pine Grove Playboys, L-R,Rodney Balfa, Dewey Balfa, Nathan Abshire, and Basile Marcantel Club where Nathan Abshire had a regular gig when he met Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records in the early 1960s: http://www.bopping.org/nathan-abshire-pope-of-cajun-accordion/. ...

Club Avalon

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Harry and the Louisiana Aces, Club Avalon, Basile, 1949 (L-R): Roland Prudhomme, Harry LaFleur, Whitney Doucet, Bill Haye, Eston Bellow Closed in 1956 after owner Quincy Davis’s death from a heart attack- Davis was from Oberlin. Nathan Abshire moved to Basile because Davis offered him a regular gig there- Louisiana Music- p. 19- JA 1955: From “Louisiana Fiddlers” by Ron Yule: Abe Manuel Sr. played there with Leo Soileau in the 1940s. ...