re: 1981 Flashback: Lafayette has more millionaires per capita than any other place on earth

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Where are all of these people working? Or are they just moving around within the metro area and hollowing out older neighborhoods?

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I’ve been saying this for the last 4 years. I have no idea where all these people are coming from that keep buying these houses.

we lived in St Martinville, on a family compound, and sent our 2 kids to St Cecilia in Broussard for ~$750/mnth before we moved to Katy in 2013. This fee included lunch and after school care. It did not include a bus, so one of us had to bring them and pick them up everyday. My O&G job allowed me to do that for the most part.


when I was a kid to 25y/o in Lafayette (72-97) we went from our neighbors and friend's dads were

1. High Level Company Men for major Oil Comps or Executives with Service Companies - then 80s BUST

2. Then regional company men or Superintendents or Regional Managers or Owners of Service Companies

3. Then Superintendents or District Managers of Major Oil Companies or Dist Managers of Major Service Comps or Owners/Managers of Service Companies

4. By 1997 the Majors senior managers were pretty much gone from Lafayette short of Ops skeleton crews and all that were left were area or asset managers of Majors, Superintendents of Indies, Regional Managers of Major Service Comps or owner/managers of Service Companies

Now 30 years later it is GoM and Land Regional Managers of a few Indies, Field Managers of Major Service Companies and Owners/Managers of Service Comps

that is a huge swing in local citizens brain power and taxable income. Edgar Martin Middle was one of the best schools in Louisiana because it was the primary school of the kids of the Chevron/bp/Texaco/Penz Energy Execs and Managers in Lafayette. Edgar Martin is a shell of what ot once was.

all of the field level guys lived in Carencro, Abbeville, New Iberia areas due to cost of living, that hasnt changed

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and they are hurting for more students, is my understandin

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most private/religious schools nationwide are facing declining enrollment.


demographic that sends kids there is having fewer kids. Decline began 20-25 years ago

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Would have loved to have been old enough to be at the petroleum club drinking and hearing stories

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It was a hoot!

Lunches were fabulous.

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Is it weird that I've lived in Lafayette my entire life, 41 years and I've never once eaten there?

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My story is somewhat similar. I lived in Lafayette from the mid-50s to the early 70s and the one and only time I have ever eaten there was when I went back in the late 80s for a visit with some friends.

Remember the “men only” bar? Had a pewter counter top, iirc.

Went there with my boss who was a member, and one of our older geologists that was a member. Sitting in the back bar was a treasure. You could see and visit with some of the Oil Center's most famous independents and wildcatters.

Some of the time they were actually sober.

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Would have loved to have been old enough to be at the petroleum club drinking and hearing stories

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We would frequently go to dinner at the petroleum club, I can vividly remember Dad getting lobster, and I got steak with mushroom gravy (which was awesome). IIRC they also had good French onion soup which Mom got every time. Then they had those Andes mints on the way out, had to be sure to snag one of those. We’d often go with my grandparents too. Good memories.

Granted family dinner probably isn’t what most people get nostalgic about with the petroleum club, but I was a kid, so Friday wet lunches were not in the cards

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It would be cool for all of us who have never been to have a TD event at La Fonda’s if it is still around.

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You’re good

Lafonda is not going anywhere

I was house shopping last year and the prices for new construction were absurd as was the quality.