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Fort lauderdale Cruises!
Fort Lauderdale Boat Tours and Fort Lauderdale Attractions!
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The Wayne Huizenga House - attractions in Fort Lauderdale
The boat tour shows you things and places you will never see from the streets, and there are many attractions to see in Fort Lauderdale!
H. Wayne Huizenga is South Florida's best known entrepreneur billionaire. Starting with a single garbage truck in 1962, he built three Fortune 500 companies: Waste Management Inc., Blockbuster Entertainment Inc. and AutoNation Inc. He previously owned of the Florida Marlins baseball team, the National Football League's Miami Dolphins football team and the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers hockey team. We cruise past Wayne Huizenga's house in Fort Lauderdale, FL and give you a great view not seen without a cruise on the waterways.
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Wayne Huizenga House - Fort Lauderdale attractions
Born Dec. 29, 1937 in Chicago, Huizenga moved as a teenager to Fort Lauderdale in the 1950s with his parents, G. Harry and Jean, and sister Bonnie. The rest of the Huizenga clan stayed in Chicago where they ran a garbage hauling business. Huizenga went to Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale where schoolmates still recall his penchant for hard work and his entrepreneurial drive. He attended Calvin College, but dropped out and returned to Fort Lauderdale where he worked in construction and managed a garbage hauling company.
He married Joyce Vanderwagon in 1960, and borrowed $5,000 from his father-in-law in 1962 to buy a garbage truck and route in Pompano Beach. Huizenga worked non-stop and rode the growth boom in South Florida, adding trucks and routes. (He and Joyce, who had two children, Wayne Jr. and Scott, divorced in 1966.) By 1968, he had 40 trucks and a big slice of the garbage business in Broward County. In the late 1960s, Huizenga forged a partnership with the family garbage business in Chicago, which had been renamed Waste Management and run by his cousin BJ's then-husband, Dean Buntrock. Waste Management went public in 1971 and Huizenga was the primary dealmaker, buying up garbage operations across the nation with company stock. Huizenga married his former secretary, Marti Goldsby, in 1972. (Marti was a widow with two children, Ray and Pamela, who Huizenga adopted.) Huizenga commuted between Fort Lauderdale and Chicago. Waste Management shares were traded on the NYSE by 1973 and revenues reached $132 million by 1974. Waste Management expanded internationally and continued to grow. |
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