Family Traditions Antique and Flea Mall

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

New arrivals. Any Breyer vintage horse collectors?? This is just the beginning. 2 more totes. All marked. All great condition. Family Traditions Antique's and flea mall. 9291 airline hwy Sorento. Wednesday -Sunday 10am-5pm. Y'all shop by.

09/04/2026

Jolie Blonde
"zho-LEE blohnd"
Pretty blonde, the anthem of Cajun music.

Every people has one song that never needs announcing.

In south Louisiana it is this one. Three notes of the waltz and the hall already knows. Old men who have not danced in a decade will set down the glass and go find somebody's grandmother, and the floor fills the way water fills a low place.

The song was first put on record on April 18, 1929, in Atlanta, by the Breaux family of Rayne, with Amede on accordion and Ophy and Cleoma alongside him. They called it Ma Blonde Est Partie, my blonde has gone away. The family has long held that Cleoma wrote the words even though the label credited her brother, and the fiddle melody underneath is older than any of them, carried around Acadiana long before anyone thought to press it into shellac.

The words themselves are almost nothing. A young man speaks to the pretty blonde who left him, went back to her people, and is now in another man's arms. That is the entire story. No revenge in it, no resolution. He simply says the thing out loud in three-quarter time, and then the song ends.

Seventeen years later a fiddler named Harry Choates cut it as Jole Blon for a small Houston label, and it went everywhere. Country stations played it. For millions of Americans who could not have found Rayne on a map, that scratchy record was the first Cajun French they ever heard.

By then Jolie Blonde had stopped being a song about one woman. She had become a figure, painted by George Rodrigue in 1974 as a kind of Cajun apparition, invoked in a hundred other songs, standing in for every home and every good thing a person left behind and could not get back.

That is why the dancehall fills. Everybody in the room has a jolie blonde of some kind.

You only have to hear the accordion take the first bar.

09/04/2026

Y’all the count down has begun. We still have openings for vendors who would like to set up for the event.

09/03/2026

Family Traditions Antique's and flea mall. 9291 airline hwy Sorento. Wednesday -Sunday 10am-5pm. Gitana Leal.

09/03/2026

Family Traditions Antique's and flea mall. 9291 airline hwy Sorento. Wednesday -Sunday 10am-5pm. Paola Dinatale

09/03/2026

Family Traditions Antique's and flea mall. 9291 airline hwy Sorento. Wednesday -Sunday 10am-5pm. Larry Caudle.