re: Today I learned that Lake Charles has a publicly traded company.

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If I’m thinking of the same company the have preferred shares that are good shite. Those guys are fricking ballers.

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The largest and best Faberge Egg collection privately owned in the world. Luxury hotels in foreign countries. Ranches in Central America. Donations (cash, manuscripts and artifacts) which made Tulane the best for archeology in the US. Donated shiploads of rice crop to England and France the first two years after WWII, from their own harvest. Money originally generated from the most oil per acre oilfield in the history of oil. Massive marsh ranchland. Largest client for the largest lobbying firm in DC, at least in the 1970's.

They ain't broke by a longshot. Gray is the lone progeny of the family. Named for his uncle who died in an American Airlines crash in NOLA in the 1970's. Gray being the family name who made all the original money.

Gray's dad, Spook, wanted to be a cowboy and cutting horse champ so became one, best horses money could buy, trainer and coach to get him there in the 1970's Growing up in Pasadena, CA, Spook wanted to up Lake Charles' music scene so created one fo the best FM stations of all time, with a great mix of Rock, Cosmic Cowboy (Austin) country, and South American Jazz, and several major night clubs one with a lot of live acts from Austin for the mid to late 1970's at Gandolf's (their grill had great burgers too). He started several successful large construction companies too, by hiring top people. Then he would get bored with a company after it was making money and either sell or shut it down.