Dancehalls in Lafayette Parish

Guilbeau’s Hall

Newspaper mention from The Lafayette Gazette, Lafayette, February 2, 1895 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064111/1895-02-02/ed-1/seq-3/ ...

La Boucane

Hollis Boudreaux- “Mr. Darby ran a nice place, benefits and fund raisers were common there in the 90’s. Carl Hollier, Glen Cormier, Sheryl Cormier, Ivy Dugas and the Cajun Cousins when they came out with the Old Gravel Road played there. They had a fund raiser for Damon Troy for his first new accordion. It was a packed house that day and many other days and nights also. Then it became Wranglers, but with the same owner. I passed by there a month ago and it’s a car lot now.” Kristi Guillory: “It was on University, later called Wranglers- now a used car dealership.” Johnnie Allan photo: I-AL-D.045 ...

RR lounge

early 1960s black club, Lil Buck & his Top Cats, Living Blues photo p. 18 ...

Sibille’s Hall

Dr. James B. Aswell, candidate for Louisiana Govenor, scheduled to speak there December 22, 1911: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1911-12-22/ed-1/seq-1/ Dance in May, 1907: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1907-05-15/ed-1/seq-5/ Bachelor Maids Dance May 4, 1904: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1904-05-04/ed-1/seq-8/ Dance held Feb 1906 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1906-02-14/ed-1/seq-8/ Shirtwaist Dance: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1904-08-24/ed-1/seq-5/ : 1903: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064111/1903-07-04/ed-1/seq-4/ : 1901: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064111/1901-04-27/ed-1/seq-1/ ...

St. Joseph Church Hall

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption:The Misfits, St. Joseph Church Hall, Carencro, circa 1962 (L-R): Arnold Bernard, Bud Chandler, Wallace Broussard, Harold Arceneaux, Frank Pryor, Aurelien “T-Gid” Guidry, Gill Castille ...

Woodmen of the World

Newspaper mention about dance there: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86079068/1909-09-07/ed-1/seq-3/ ...

Woody Wood Club

Dudley Duhon: on the Vermilion River. I played guitar there on New Year’s Eve with AB Sonnier & the Louisiana Swingsters. There was chicken wire surrounding the bandstand. No one threw bottles at us while we played. Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. ...

Club Creole

Photos by John Sharp No known information ...