“So my favorite place to go to was the College Inn in Thibodaux. We used to have bands that came every weekend. Big bands, like Fats Domino, played there. My mother and father had a group called the Cooney Club and they would also go there. The adults would go there and dance to big bands. I used to sneak into the College Inn at sixteen [because] I wasn’t old enough, and wasn’t supposed to be there. But, I used to go at sixteen with friends and it was so much fun. We would dance ourselves all night long and meet so many people, because people would come from all over when we had names like Fats Domino and Erma Thomas perform there. They used to have a snack bar and they had the best hamburgers. It was just a fun place to be. I’m not sure if I’d want it to come back. Where it’s located right now is not a really nice area. It wasn’t a ‘bad area’ when we used to go there. But now, if it came back to its same location, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be good.”