From matchbook cover: Tiki Lounge Thibodaux, LA
Tiki Lounge
Dancehalls in Lafourche Parish
Dano’s
Not much known- Free crab boil on Friday night Photos by Russell Lee, September 1938 U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black and White Photographs Lot 1683 Library of Congress Call Number: LC-USF33- 011654-M1
Cheramie’s King Tut Saloon
Cheramie’s King Tut Saloon Curb Service Your Best and Last Chance Fine Drinks of all kinds Tourist Information Photo by Russell Lee, September 1938 Library of Congress Call Number: LC-USF33- 011637-M1 [P and P]
College Inn
Joyce Zeringue- opened 1946- more nightclub but dancing too- 424 Jackson Street- corner of West 1st Street & Jackson: http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110819/ENTERTAINMENT/110819486
Foundry
Rodney Daigle: I danced there- country music
Frost’s Hall
Newspaper mention of dance: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1901-06-08/ed-1/seq-4/
Hook and Ladder company Hall
Newspaper item mention: 1900: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-08/ed-1/seq-4/
Pavillion
Maria Zeringue’s grandmom Myra Blanchard- near courthouse- mostly for young people- jitterbug- all kinds of bands- swamp pop mostly- sold and moved down the bayou to LaRose- now it is the Safari
Sugarbowl
Carol Fran and husband/saxophonist Joe Francois performed R&B there in the mid-1950s: part of the Louisiana “crawfish circuit.” In her autobiography, “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story,” James mentions that she and her band lived above the club while on a tour of the South in the 1950s.
Tabor’s Hall
Newspaper mention of dance: 1900: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1900-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/ : 1901: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1901-06-29/ed-1/seq-1/ : 1902: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064490/1902-05-17/ed-1/seq-1/