Ye Olde College Inn’s origins began as The Pig Stand, a chain outfit from Texas originally operated as a lease between Denis Rufin Sr. and The Pig Stand ownership. Behind on lease payments, political winds shifting and ushering the end of prohibition, the Rufin family decided to take back The Pig Stand and have their own go at the restaurant and bar business. Emile Rufin, still alive today, soon got the call to leave the LSU Baseball team and return home to New Orleans for the day shift (Noon-Midnight). Emile along with his two brothers Denis Jr. and Albert would birth 70 years at Ye Olde College Inn.