Christmastime on Second Street

ID: 860 ~ Source: Alma Brunson Reed, Images of America: Eunice (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009), 30.

This file appears in: KEUN: Eunice, the Prairie Cajun Capital: A Place for Cajun Music

Second Street during Christmas in the 1960s before KEUN moved there in 1968. KEUN would be located in the single-story building above the truck on the left.

This file appears in: KEUN: Eunice, the Prairie Cajun Capital: A Place for Cajun Music

KEUN: Eunice, the Prairie Cajun Capital: A Place for Cajun Music

By Lindsey DeLaughter

The founding of radio station KEUN in Eunice occurred as Cajun and zydeco music were gaining prominence in the mid to late twentieth century. However, both genres struggled to get airtime anywhere…