Dancehalls in St. Landry Parish

Emile Elias’s Dancehall

Newspaper article about arrests at black dancehall from The St. Landry Clarion, Opelousas, November 18, 1913  http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1913-10-18/ed-1/seq-1/ ...

Firemen’s Hall

Newspaper item about dance from the St. Landry Clarion, Opelousas, September 6, 1919 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1919-09-06/ed-1/seq-8/ Newspaper item about dance from the St. Landry Clarion, Opelousas, August 31, 1918 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1918-08-31/ed-1/seq-5/ ...

Rose Garden Club

Washington Road: 1947-48 phone book: red light b/n Opelousas & washington- burnt down ...

Acadiana Lounge

806 S. Bullard Street: Church Point Road Ben Benoit: “Me and my buddy went there together. He was a huge guy- 6’4″. We crossed the dance floor to ask these two girls to dance and they said no. The band started and my buddy grabbed me up and waltzed me back across the floor to where we started from. I tried to stop him but he said ‘I ain’t walking back over there in front of all these people- they’d know we got turned down.” ...

Barrilleaux’s Hall

Newspaper item about dance there following a film, 1920: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1920-05-22/ed-1/seq-2/ Newspaper item about Leap Year dance, 1920: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1920-04-24/ed-1/seq-1/ Newspaper item about Christmas dance, 1919: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1919-12-20/ed-1/seq-1/   ...

Unknown Hall

Dancehall on Highway 71- Marsha Mills- said her parents danced there- 1930s or 1940s- gone now- ...