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Friendly's abruptly closed most of their locations in upstate New York on April 7, 2019. [18] Several locations in New England were also among the closures. [19] Co-founder Curtis Blake died on May 24, 2019, at the age of 102. [20] On August 19, 2019, Friendly's closed its North Providence location, its last in Rhode Island. [3]
Blake and Curtis founded the Friendly's national restaurant chain in the summer of 1935, during the Great Depression. [3] They worked closely together for 43 years. [3] From making ice cream to scooping ice cream, the brothers shared in the hard work of getting the company off the ground; even their mother chipped in, helping to create the syrup for the coffee flavored ice cream. [3]
A Friendly's "Jim Dandy" sundae is meant to be shared, and no wonder: It contains five scoops of ice cream, a split banana, pineapple topping, hot fudge, marshmallow sauce, walnuts, and sprinkles.
[1] [9] In 1948, Bond's licensed it to Newport Creamery and then to Massachusetts-based Friendly's. [10] The terms of the license mandated the two New England businesses not sell it in New Jersey, leading the expanding Friendly's chain to rebrand it as a "Fribble", and later changing its formula to be more like a traditional milkshake with ice ...
A view of what remains of a house that was destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, on Jan. 16, 2025.
At the same time, Biden is not on speaking terms with some of his closest allies. It is all an inglorious coda to five decades in public office. “The Joe Biden story is one of the great ...
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This year, we increased our common stock dividend per share by 15% and repurchased approximately $20 billion of common stock, up 64% from a year ago. Regarding our strategic priorities.