Hot Springs
Owen "Owney" Madden
He ran a New York City club, partnered with half of the city's underworld, and was eventually forced out of New York. So he moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and became a pillar of the community where he created a safe haven for many Prohibition criminals.
Raymond Parks left home at 14 to learn the moonshine trade. He was quiet, careful, and good at it — accumulating wealth without accumulating enemies. When he had enough, he didn’t spend it. He invested it in stock car racing, a sport populated almost entirely by men who’d learned to drive running liquor. The first race ever held under NASCAR’s banner was won by a driver Parks bankrolled. He never drove a lap himself. He just had the vision to see where the money should go.
Raymond Parks left home at 14 to learn the moonshine trade. He was quiet, careful, and good at it — accumulating wealth without accumulating enemies. When he had enough, he didn’t spend it. He invested it in stock car racing, a sport populated almost entirely by men who’d learned to drive running liquor. The first race ever held under NASCAR’s banner was won by a driver Parks bankrolled. He never drove a lap himself. He just had the vision to see where the money should go.
