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Double Bayou Dance Hall

Location: Anahuac, Texas

DOUBLE BAYOU DANCE HALL. Double Bayou Dance Hall, located in the small black community of Double Bayou in Chambers County, sixty miles east of Houston, was established in the late 1920s. It was damaged by a storm in the early 1940s and reestablished at its present site in 1946 by returning World War II serviceman Manuel Rivers Jr. and his wife, Ella...

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