Jeannie Justillian

Pierre Part, Louisiana
1960s
Favorite Youth Activity/Spot
“I mostly stayed at the Rainbow Inn since I started going there and sat in the restaurant area before I started dancing in the dance hall section.”
Favorite Youth Memory
“I loved dancing so much at the Rainbow Inn. My favorite is the Jitterbug move. I have good memories of the Rainbow Inn since I started going as a young teen.”
What’s your favorite place?
“The Rainbow Inn. It was a restaurant, it was a bar, and it was a dance hall. My sister, Marilyn, worked…she used to have young girls that would work the counter. They sold ice cream cones, you know, the old-fashioned kind.”
The Rainbow Inn
Profile by Victoria Davis-Abad