"An immigrant story, an American dream, a machine that defined bourgeois sensuality"

Gift NYT article here.

Candido Jacuzzi didn’t set out to turn his last name into a global brand. Nor did he intend to power a business which, though it created the family fortune, nearly tore them apart. He just wanted to ease the physical pain suffered by his son, any way he could.



"...the 1966 Luxury Line Hydro-Therapy Pool...made its film debut in “The Fortune Cookie,” directed by Billy Wilder and starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.

Its craterlike form has been featured in teen dramas, ’70s crime movies and ’80s soap operas. A time-traveling hot tub was the basis for an entire movie. “Saturday Night Live” used them in a recurring skit, and among the most memorable scenes in “Scarface” was Al Pacino submerged in a bedroom hot tub. More recently, there was the tub-side class tension in the Oscar-nominated film “The Triangle of Sadness.”

And someone mentioned in the Comments:

The article left out an important and interesting aside: the company was a prolific defense contractor during the Vietnam era. The water-jet drive of the PBR (Patrol Boat, River), of “Apocalypse Now” fame, designed to be operated in extremely shallow and swampy waterways, was designed and manufactured by Jacuzzi Brothers.

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