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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 07 > Irvine Robbins co-founded ice cream chain

Irvine Robbins co-founded ice cream chain

By Valerie J. Nelson / The Bulletin
May 7, 2008

Irvine Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins whose penchant for creating unusual ice-cream flavors helped push post-World War II America far beyond its chocolate-vanilla-strawberry tastes, has died. He was 90.

Robbins, who opened his first ice-cream shop in 1945 in Glendale, Calif., died Monday....

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