The Lord will sort it out.
I worked on his home phone lines in Lauderdale just before the Blockbuster Days.
He was a regular and good guy. Nice kids and family.
Neil had Wayne’s number.
This is GREAT local radio!
https://neilrogers.org/neil-rogers-show-wiod-dat-3/
Where are they dumping his remains?
I worked for Waste Management in the late 80s. Very creative bookkeeping.
Aggressive guy, but always with the bottom line numbers in mind. Could have used a guy like him in DC today. I have nothing but respect for the guy. He loved business, he !oved being in business, he loved competing.
As an aside, his late wife Marti (native Florida girl, from the days before the state experienced a measure of prosperity) was every bit as shrewd as he was. They dated, she cut it off unless they got married, her reasoning— I know guys like Wayne...he’s successful and he’ll keep stringing me along, hoping I’m just content to date a successful guy...
Great couple. They will be missed. And Wayne is another example of someone who never finished college, but never stopped learning. From two garbage truck routes in Pompano. Read his autobiography about collecting garbage all day, coming home, showering, then putting on a suit to go collect from his commercial clients. The guy paid his dues.
A life well lived.
Us old timers can remember that the norm for garbage collection was to maybe have some old cans by the side of your house or maybe just in bags. The garbage man would run up to your house, carry the cans out to the truck or trailer, dump them and then run them back. Terribly inefficient.
And then garbage companies said: Your garbage must be in cans. So everyone had cans.
Then the garbage company said: Everyone must have the same cans. So they bought a bunch of similar cans "gave" them to customers to rent and upped prices.
Then the garbage company said: You now have to bring the cans to the ROAD yourself.
Then they said: You must NOW put your cans a certain distance from the road facing the correct way.
Now they have trucks that zoom by, automatically pick up a can, automatically dump it, replace and move on. All because they trained their own customers to make their industry more profitable.
He also started a hotel chain I worked for for 17 years. We called the hotels the houses that Wayne built when something would fail.
Hope he enjoys fireside chats with Hitler.
It just makes a man want to celebrate by paying a $100 long after the regulations passed against all other ways of waste disposal.
Wayne and Marti were great people who contributed millions to worthy causes in Ft. Lauderdale. They lived rather modestly for billionaires, and quite frankly Wayne gave those whom he employed the opportunity to become wealthy as well.