re: People the grew up during the Louisiana Oil Boom in the 1970/1980s, what was that like?

opec lost market share… their fields were/are large and shallow .. the total cost of getting a barrel of oil out of the ground to them was a few dollars and they had a lot… so when to much competition was taking their market share they were willing to flood the market to drive prices down and drive out the independents and smaller companies… They then kept the price down to keep them from coming back.. they did the same thing a few years back .. last time we had low gasoline prices.. they were trying to put the independent frackers out of business.
Look at crude oil prices from the 70 s until now … you can see where they open up.

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4 lane 90 just abruptly stopping in MC for what seemed ages.

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Yep. That was what was called "Blood Alley", the old highway 90 between Morgan City and Houma. It was lined with bars, strip clubs, shipyards, and O&G support shops. Two lane highway that would get full of drunks after dark. Many people died on that road. They used to make bumper stickers that said "Pray for me. I drive Blood Alley."

My Dad started teaching in 1968, and he worked offshore in the summers. He became an SME in safety and compliance. He told me in 1980 alone he made more money consulting on safety than he made in his entire teaching career combined. The consulting gig was great until 84. Then by 85 it was over. He could have continued in Nigeria and the Middle East, but had no desire to travel 3/4 of the year.

My family owns a few acres in Pointe Coupee Parish. In the mid 70's to mid 80's it was bringing about a thousand a month in gas royalties. Not life changing money but paid for a few perks. Other members of the family who lived there and had larger land tracts were getting huge payouts in the hundreds of thousands which was a lot at the time. Lots of baws getting new trucks and house renovations. Today it doesn't bring in hardly anything, but funnily enough in the last few months have been getting prospecting calls to see if we would like to sell. This land is still in the country and has no real value other than gas potential, but the well has been abandoned for a while. But you never know, it could be picked up again at some point. Not worth selling as the taxes are so cheap and the potential is so great.

I was in elementary school in Lafayette, and I remember passing building where someone, or a collection of people, had a different color Lamborghini Countach for each day of the week. If I recall directly, one was red, one was blue, one was white, one was black, and oddly, one was brown.

Neg, was a porche dealer on Johnston st though.

Hookers & Blow

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A lot of people after college choose to remain near friends and the people that love them. A person like yourself could probably live anywhere because nobody really gives a shite about you.

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I love a good sweet burn.

Plaquemine Parish was booming at that time, I had in-laws that lived there and worked production platforms in the gulf and I moved to Buras my first summer out of high school to get a job.
Had zero experience but there was an old motel called Sheffield’s and if you wanted to work you just sat outside on a bench and a Placid or some other company van would stop and pick you up and boom, you’d go to work!
Worked hard laying pipeline across marsh on an old barge but soon got on with Gulf, made the worst career move in my life when I quit that job on the production platform because Chevron bought them out about a month after I quit and all the guys I was working with ended up with great careers and lots of money.