Bonnet House: Fort Lauderdale’s Whimsical Art Estate
Hidden between Fort Lauderdale’s high-rises sits a 1920s estate where an artist built a tropical fantasy of murals, carousel animals, swans, and roaming monkeys, all on a barrier island.
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Cannonball Adderley’s First Night in New York
In 1955 a Fort Lauderdale music teacher named Julian Adderley sat in with Oscar Pettiford’s band at the Cafe Bohemia. Four years later he played on Kind of Blue.
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Where the Boys Are: The Movie That Made Fort Lauderdale Spring Break
One 1960 movie did more to create the Florida spring break than any travel ad ever could. After Where the Boys Are, college students poured into Fort Lauderdale by the thousands.
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Wayne Huizenga: The Florida Dealmaker Who Built Empires
From a single garbage truck, Wayne Huizenga built three Fortune 500 companies and brought big-league baseball, football, and hockey to South Florida.
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Travis McGee: Twenty-One Color-Coded Novels and One Houseboat at Slip F-18
John D. MacDonald’s salvage consultant lives on a houseboat called the Busted Flush at Bahia Mar in Fort Lauderdale and recovers stolen property for half its value. Most of the twenty-one novels stay in Florida.
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Chris Evert: Fort Lauderdale’s Tennis Legend Who Never Left Home
Chris Evert won 18 Grand Slams and spent 260 weeks as the world’s top player, but she never left the South Florida community where her father taught her to play.
