Burt "Butch" Baskin was an American businessman who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with business partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins.
11 Facts About Burt Baskin
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Burt Baskin was born in Streator, Illinois, on December 17,1913.
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Burt Baskin's father was Harold Baskin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had arrived in the United States in 1925 and who owned a clothing store.
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Burt Baskin graduated from Streator Township High School in 1931 and from the University of Illinois in 1935 and was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
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Harry Baskin had immigrated from Russia about 1925, married in about 1902 and moved to Streator in 1905 or before.
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The Burt Baskin family operated a clothing store in Streator until Harry retired in 1942.
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Burt Baskin owned a men's store in the Palmer House in Chicago, and married Irv Robbins' sister Shirley in 1942.
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Burt Baskin had 43 stores by the end of 1949, more than 100 by 1960 and about 500 when the ice cream empire was sold to United Fruit Company for an estimated $12 million in 1967.
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Twenty-five years later, Burt Baskin-Robbins had become the world's largest chain of ice cream stores, with 5,500 outlets around the world.
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Burt Baskin served as a Lieutenant Commander of Naval Reserve in the South Pacific during World War II.
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Burt Baskin died from a heart attack at his home in Studio City, California, on December 24,1967, a week after his 54th birthday.