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Burt Baskin was born in 1913 in Streator, Illinois, the youngest child of Jewish immigrants Harold Baskin and Ida (Chaya) Surie Baskin, who had emigrated in the 1890s from Smolensk, Russia, and Łomża, Poland, respectively. [2] He had three brothers: Bernard, Albert, and Lester, and a sister, Florence. His father owned Baskin's clothing store ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Uncle Sam, the Ice Cream Man. Irvine Robbins was born on December 6, 1917, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was the oldest of three children and the only boy born to Goldie (Chmelnitsky) Robbins (1894-1991) and Aaron Ernest Robbins (1886-1948). His mother was born in the Ukraine; his father was born in Russia and moved to Montreal with his ...
A Businessman's Rocky Road. If Baskin-Robbins had merely given us Jamoca Almond Fudge, it would have been enough. But the in-law entrepreneurs who founded the chain in the 1940s also turned the ...
Apr 4, 2024 · She was 47 when Baskin died of a heart attack on Christmas Eve at their Studio City, California, home. Baskin saw his company grow to more than 400 stores nationwide when it was sold in 1967 to United Fruit for $12 million – roughly $110 million in 2024 dollars, adjusted for inflation. His death at age 54 came less than six months after the sale.
Burt Baskin owned a men's store in the Palmer House in Chicago, and married Robbins' sister Shirley in 1942. He had enlisted in the Navy and was released from service early 1946 and came to California, where Robbins convinced him that selling ice cream was more fun than selling men's ties & shirts, and within a couple of months he opened Burton's Ice Cream at 561 So.
Along with my uncle, Burt Baskin, he built an empire, with thousands of stores worldwide and sales eventually measuring in the billions of dollars. Not surprisingly, many people in the family struggled with weight problems; my uncle died of a heart attack in his early fifties, my father developed serious diabetes and high blood pressure, and I was sick more often than not.
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Burt Baskin was born in 1913 in Streator, Illinois, the youngest child of Jewish immigrants Harold Baskin and Ida (Chaya) Surie Baskin, who had emigrated in the 1890s from Smolensk, Russia, and Łomża, Poland, respectively. He had three brothers: Bernard, Albert, and Lester, and a sister, Florence. His father owned Baskin's clothing store in ...