100 Men Hall People Project

Day 082 Lonnie Bradley Sr. photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My parents came to the Hall. I came as a teenager. On Mardi Gras day, the floats were parked outside – inside was the band...

DAY 081 Elaine Dorsey photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). When I was in school, I finished in 1971, so maybe around the 60s, there were a lot of dances at the Hall. We stayed right...

DAY 079 Deneene Bell ZayZay photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  My grandmother lived around the block on St. Francis and she lived to be 93. She came here for dances. My mother came, she was...

DAY 078 Sheila Lang photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My mother, Geraldine Lang, used to be part of the Hall. She belonged to the household group and they would have dinners in the kitchen. She...

DAY 077 Marilyn Smith photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My parents used to come here - Edward and Catherine Isham would come to dances and the manless weddings. Our parents were so creative; they would...

DAY 076 Georgia Jude Maggio photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). When I was 3 years old, my mother had brought me with her to see the Hall. Nothing was going on, but the owners let...

DAY 074 Dorothey Gardner photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Since I was a little girl I used to come after the parades. There used to be little dances here years ago. I used to see...

DAY 069 Dorothy Hall photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). The first time I knew about the Hall, I was about 15. There were dances down here and the band was Chocolate Milk. I wasn’t allowed...