Nick Martel

This Jacuzzi family isn't just a company. It's a culture. It's an institution. It's a little society. They get together and decide it's time for one of the remaining brothers to step up and leadership passes to the youngest, the family salesman, Candido Jacuzzi. So Jack, it's 1943.

This Jacuzzi family isn't just a company. It's a culture. It's an institution. It's a little society. They get together and decide it's time for one of the remaining brothers to step up and leadership passes to the youngest, the family salesman, Candido Jacuzzi. So Jack, it's 1943.

This Jacuzzi family isn't just a company. It's a culture. It's an institution. It's a little society. They get together and decide it's time for one of the remaining brothers to step up and leadership passes to the youngest, the family salesman, Candido Jacuzzi. So Jack, it's 1943.

And doctors are saying that he won't even make it to age eight. So Candido and his wife, Inez, are determined to save their two-year-old son. They put Ken into a full body cast for a full year. Wow. And inject him with gold salts. Nothing is working.

And doctors are saying that he won't even make it to age eight. So Candido and his wife, Inez, are determined to save their two-year-old son. They put Ken into a full body cast for a full year. Wow. And inject him with gold salts. Nothing is working.

And doctors are saying that he won't even make it to age eight. So Candido and his wife, Inez, are determined to save their two-year-old son. They put Ken into a full body cast for a full year. Wow. And inject him with gold salts. Nothing is working.

It's called hydrotherapy, and it uses a big oval-shaped metal tub that's called a Hubbard tank. The Hubbard tank... basically looks like a giant metal sink. Yes. It has motors that heat and stir the water. And the patient sits on a bench in the tub and lets the hot water massage their pain away. I'll tell you that. It looks like something that belongs to a barn. Yeah, I know what you mean, Jack.

It's called hydrotherapy, and it uses a big oval-shaped metal tub that's called a Hubbard tank. The Hubbard tank... basically looks like a giant metal sink. Yes. It has motors that heat and stir the water. And the patient sits on a bench in the tub and lets the hot water massage their pain away. I'll tell you that. It looks like something that belongs to a barn. Yeah, I know what you mean, Jack.

It's called hydrotherapy, and it uses a big oval-shaped metal tub that's called a Hubbard tank. The Hubbard tank... basically looks like a giant metal sink. Yes. It has motors that heat and stir the water. And the patient sits on a bench in the tub and lets the hot water massage their pain away. I'll tell you that. It looks like something that belongs to a barn. Yeah, I know what you mean, Jack.

They're not selling this thing at Sharper Image. So does this creepy looking new metallic structure work? Oh, it works. It's relaxing. It's calming. And most of all, it helps ease little Ken's swollen joints and stiff muscles. His parents are thrilled. It's a big, ugly sink, but it's a miracle.

They're not selling this thing at Sharper Image. So does this creepy looking new metallic structure work? Oh, it works. It's relaxing. It's calming. And most of all, it helps ease little Ken's swollen joints and stiff muscles. His parents are thrilled. It's a big, ugly sink, but it's a miracle.

They're not selling this thing at Sharper Image. So does this creepy looking new metallic structure work? Oh, it works. It's relaxing. It's calming. And most of all, it helps ease little Ken's swollen joints and stiff muscles. His parents are thrilled. It's a big, ugly sink, but it's a miracle.

His mother, Inez, takes little Kenneth in for treatments twice a week, an hour drive away from their house. He's basically living in this thing just to stay alive. And his fingers are like pruned up 24-7. But the long drive is super painful for little Ken. So Inez begs Candido to take a look at the Hubbard. Here's what she's thinking. Uh, hey, Candido, your whole family works with water, right?

His mother, Inez, takes little Kenneth in for treatments twice a week, an hour drive away from their house. He's basically living in this thing just to stay alive. And his fingers are like pruned up 24-7. But the long drive is super painful for little Ken. So Inez begs Candido to take a look at the Hubbard. Here's what she's thinking. Uh, hey, Candido, your whole family works with water, right?

His mother, Inez, takes little Kenneth in for treatments twice a week, an hour drive away from their house. He's basically living in this thing just to stay alive. And his fingers are like pruned up 24-7. But the long drive is super painful for little Ken. So Inez begs Candido to take a look at the Hubbard. Here's what she's thinking. Uh, hey, Candido, your whole family works with water, right?

Like, could you build something like this tub for our boy?

Like, could you build something like this tub for our boy?

Like, could you build something like this tub for our boy?

Okay, so at this point, we have little Kenneth Jacuzzi, a boy with a chronic debilitating condition. His family has found a hydrotherapy treatment that works, but traveling to and from those treatments is wreaking havoc on his body. But there is one silver lining. Ken is a Jacuzzi. He's from a family of brilliant engineers and inventors perfectly poised to create something new.

Okay, so at this point, we have little Kenneth Jacuzzi, a boy with a chronic debilitating condition. His family has found a hydrotherapy treatment that works, but traveling to and from those treatments is wreaking havoc on his body. But there is one silver lining. Ken is a Jacuzzi. He's from a family of brilliant engineers and inventors perfectly poised to create something new.