Irvine Robbins grew up in Seattle and worked at his father’s dairy in Tacoma, so the Seattle PI’s obituary has the details on his local life. The co-founder of Baskin-Robbins was born in Winnipeg, and his family moved to the area when his uncle purchased an ice cream company on Capitol Hill. He had his bar mitzvah at Temple DeHirsch Sinai, was a yell leader at Stadium High School, and graduated from the University of Washington. When he opened his first ice cream store he defected to sunny California.