From http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/islenos.html#tab14 : Written by Sara-Ann Harris “The Saturday night dance tradition including décima singing, Spanish/Isleño dinner, and speaking in Spanish fell away in the late 1940s. It was not revived. However, after Katrina, Edween Nunez, a man who grew up on Saturday night dances, reconstituted a variation on the custom. After th ...[Read More]
Dancehalls in St. Bernard Parish
Coconut Island Barroom
Dayna Bowker Lee: “There were a couple of halls in the Isleno community in St. Bernard Parish. One was the Coconut Island Barroom, destroyed by Katrina but replicated now on the Isleno cultural park property.” From http://www.losislenos.org/museum.html : “The Society moved the Coconut Island Barroom, a 1920 cypress board and batten structure, and the Estopinal House and kitchen, ...[Read More]
Musket Lounge
From matchbook cover: Musket Lounge 7150 St. Claude Arabi, LA Lloyd Nicaud, your host
Unknown Dancehall
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Unknown Dancehall
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Unknown Dancehall
Dancehall shown in 1941 WPA photos of a muskrat trappers awaiting a fur auction