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. ...
Wrangler’s
Univ. Ave. North of I-10 ...
Chinaball Club
Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Chinaball Club, Bristol, Freeman Hanks, Cledus Mire, Eddie Bearb, Clarence Hanks, 1942, Courtesy of Albert Meche 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.” Johnnie Allan played there in 1954. ...
Placide Simar’s
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 ...