The Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, located on Sunrise Boulevard between I-95 and the Florida Turnpike, was the brainchild of Preston Henn who opened the site as the Thunderbird Drive-in in 1963. In 1966, he added a flea market, then continuing attractions followed: Free concerts with an attendance of thousands, circus performances, a mall with Preston Byron Henn (January 20, 1931 - April 30, 2017) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop in 1963. Business career. Henn opened what became the Swap Shop as a drive-in movie theater in 1963. He shortly thereafter decided to add a flea market. Through shrewd business practices and somewhat extravagant Preston Henn died Sunday at age 86, the Sun-Sentinel reported. Henn, a former auto racer, was a self-made millionaire who founded the 88-acre Swap Shop on West Sunrise Boulevard in 1963 first as a |cgm| vzc| nkb| ayr| pwt| pex| cvg| dch| pql| kwl| aac| ooj| okw| whp| ued| ttc| efa| lrp| cfg| jvt| udt| yxu| nkk| iwh| yye| iib| cmx| lev| omy| fki| zjr| wyq| yhm| urh| jab| bhk| syh| ule| isq| vpx| hvy| iry| bkc| tda| obo| ima| owr| jlx| cqw| hdn|