Dancehalls in Lafayette Parish

Podnuh’s Night Club

1185 Terrace Highway: Now Joey’s Sports Bar Cookie & the Cupcakes live at Podnuh’s in 1993 ...

Rumours

Dancehall turned Rental hall ...

Pop A Top

1288 Smede Highway: 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 https://www.facebook.com/popatopjam ...

Club La Lune

LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment by Albert Meche: “I was born and raised in the Bosco are and still live there. The area was known as Marais Bouleur also. My father was a share cropper and would bartend on Saturday nights at Tee Maurice’s and the club La Lune. I went there many times. The club La Lune was not open too many years.” 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.” ...

Espera Douguet Dance Hall

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.” ...

Fais Do Do Club

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 ...

Red Dog Club

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 ...

Tee Maurice Club (Richard’s Casino)

Twenty-five cents would get you a ride to and from the dance as well as admit you to it Bobby & Marcella Caffey “There was a dancehall, bar & horse races too! They used it as a baseball field on Sunday. We used to watch Blackie Forestier play there.” Mabel Babineaux- “I had a date at Tee Maurice- we were walking there together. My date put his arm around my waist and my aunt saw it from the wagon behind us. She told my mother- I was grounded for 6 months! I always had to ride in the wagon from then on to be supervised.” Joe Besse: “Marais Bouler is an area in the Bosco oilfield of NE Acadia parish. There was no club by this name, but the nearest one to this area was “Richard’s Casino” which was a rough place. I went there once when I was an SLI freshman. I live about 3 miles from where this club was. There also was a dirt racetrack next to the club. It was on La Hwy 343 near Davis Seafood.” LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment by Albert Meche: “I was born and raised in the Bosco are and still live there. The area was known as Marais Bouleur also. My father was a share cropper and would bartend on Saturday nights at Tee Maurice’s and the club La Lune. I went there many times.” Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Cleveland Mire and the Jolly Boys of Bosco, 1938, Te-Maurice (Richard’s Casino), Bosco, (L-R): L.J. Daigle, Eugene Boullion, Cleveland Mire, Aldus “Popeye” Broussard, Courtesy Aldus and Bernice Roger Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys- “Bosco Stomp” ...