Pythian Hall

Newspaper item about Senior High Dance: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1914-05-23/ed-1/seq-3/ : 1909: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1909-01-02/ed-1/seq-5/ : 1919- music by Toots Johnson: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1919-06-14/ed-1/seq-3/ : 1897: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064339/1897-04-24/ed-1/seq-5/ ...

Cajun Frontier

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Pine Grove Playboys, L-R,Rodney Balfa, Dewey Balfa, Nathan Abshire, and Basile Marcantel Club where Nathan Abshire had a regular gig when he met Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records in the early 1960s: http://www.bopping.org/nathan-abshire-pope-of-cajun-accordion/. ...

Club Avalon

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Harry and the Louisiana Aces, Club Avalon, Basile, 1949 (L-R): Roland Prudhomme, Harry LaFleur, Whitney Doucet, Bill Haye, Eston Bellow Closed in 1956 after owner Quincy Davis’s death from a heart attack- Davis was from Oberlin. Nathan Abshire moved to Basile because Davis offered him a regular gig there- Louisiana Music- p. 19- JA 1955: From “Louisiana Fiddlers” by Ron Yule: Abe Manuel Sr. played there with Leo Soileau in the 1940s. ...

Fontenot’s Main Street Lounge

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 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.” Harry LaFleur and band perform at Fontent’s Main Street Lounge in Basille in a clip from the 1988 documentary film, “Ally Meets The Cajuns”. ...

Foreman’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 ...

Main Street Lounge

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Cajun dancehall- also known as Fontenot’s Main Street Lounge ...

Office

Kristie Guillory- building still there ...

Qunicy’s Lounge

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.” Owner was Quincy Davis ...