Juke Joint, March 2010: Part 1
Facts
- This page's title indicates it was "Part 1" of a two-part photo-gallery-style writeup for a March 2010 LA Juke Joint evening run by SCBS.
- The pairing with a "Part 2" page is consistent with common early-2010s community-website practice of splitting large photo galleries across multiple pages.
- We could not independently confirm an Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot specifically for this exact URL, unlike for several related pages on this site.
- No specific venue, performer, or photo content from this particular evening could be verified.
This is the archive entry for "Part 1" of a March 2010 LA Juke Joint evening originally documented on the Southern California Blues Society's website. As with the rest of this rebuilt domain, the Southern California Blues Journal is presenting this as a historical placeholder: an honest record that an event by this name and at this address once existed, rather than a reconstructed account of exactly what took place that night.
The split into "Part 1" and "Part 2" pages, which also appears on this site's other juke joint entry from the same month, strongly suggests the original page was primarily a photo gallery, broken across two pages because a single page could not comfortably hold every image from the evening. That is a common pattern on early-2010s nonprofit and community-organization websites, which were frequently built on simple content-management systems with limits on how many embedded photos a single page could carry gracefully. We mention this pattern because it is a reasonable, source-grounded inference about this page's likely original structure, not because we can tell you what the photos themselves showed.
We attempted to retrieve this page through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to confirm its content directly; unlike several of the other pages in this series, we were not able to confirm a snapshot specifically at this exact URL in our research for this entry, which means we cannot even point to an archived capture as independent confirmation of this precise page's prior existence, though the closely related "Part 2" page from the same month was independently confirmed. We are flagging that distinction plainly rather than treating the two pages as equally documented.
What we can speak to with confidence is the broader tradition this event was almost certainly drawing on. As covered in more depth on our LA Juke Joint 2009 page, "juke joint" nights held by blues societies outside the South are generally community and fundraising events that borrow the name and festive spirit of the historic Southern juke joint tradition without claiming to literally be one. A March 2010 installment of SCBS's recurring LA Juke Joint series fits that pattern. For the second half of this same evening's documentation, continue to Juke Joint, March 2010: Part 2, and browse our photo archive for anything we have been able to source and credit properly.
