DAY 126 Etta Mae Williams photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I started coming after school especially on Easter Monday, we saw Etta James, Irma Thomas, Fats Domino. We couldn’t wait till Easter Monday. When we got here,...
DAY 125 Rickie Bradley photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My parents used to come to the Hall for the dances. Every blues band played in here and my daddy used to be the bartender when they had...
DAY 124 Rymsky Labat photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Teenie [Rymsky’s husband’s great, great aunt, Celestine Vivian “Teenie” Labat] was a big thing here, she passed at 104, and I have a video of her talking about Creole history - PBS...
DAY 123 Tequila Hall photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). USM did an oral history project and I came to it. I was not aware of the Hall before, even though I grew up in Bay Saint Louis....
DAY 122 Darlene Labat Lee photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My grandparents, Joseph Sumner and Carmen E. Labat (she delivered me), came to the Hall. My dad, Bernard Labat, was a member of the organization. We performed at Mardi Gras balls and...
DAY 121 Russell L. Nichols photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I am the last man standing of the 100 Men. I joined the Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association when I was 14 years old. I was inducted...
DAY 120 Jean Dorsey photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). First time I started coming here was my husband, Wilbert Dorsey, used to book bands and I was about 17 or 18 years old and they had dances every...
DAY 119 Leo Maurice Jr. photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I was 15 when I first came to the Hall. I came because this was the place to come as a rite of passage when you’re a teenager. It...
DAY 118 Adam Heitzman photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Adam is a member of the The Bay Ratz Marching Battery, which is a group of kids of all ages who have one thing in common - they all like to bang on...
DAY 117 John Hester photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My fondest memories of the 100 Men Hall was playing twice on stage where so many musical greats had previously performed. My band “Holly’s Dad’s Jazz Band” performed in...
DAY 116 Myron Labat, Sr. photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My grandparents came and my parents frequented the Hall. My parents saw Joe Tex, Tyrone Davis, Irma Thomas, Ernie K Doe, Tower of Power (out of Houston, TX). This...
DAY 115 Alicein Wonderland Schwabacher photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). The Hall was closed up when I was young, but we played on the railroad tracks and tried to sneak in the building. I didn’t know what it was,...
