Curtis Blake, one of two brothers who began scooping double-dip ice cream cones for a nickel during the Depression and grew their Massachusetts eatery into Friendly’s, a restaurant chain where ...

SPRINGFIELD— Saving Curtis Blake Day School seemed like a long shot back in March when American International College announced that the school for language learning disabled students would ...

Curtis L. Blake and his brother S. Prestley Blake made a careful business decision when they opened an ice cream business in Springfield one hot summer evening in 1935 — a single storefront that ...

Friendly’s — founded by brothers S. Prestley and Curtis Blake in Springfield’s Pine Point nearly 90 years ago — is down to just 90 locations after a Pennsylvania location closed earlier ...

Curtis Blake, who opened a Massachusetts ice cream store with his brother during the Depression and built it into Friendly’s, a homey restaurant chain in the Eastern United States, died on May ...

Friendly’s Ice Cream co-founder Curtis Blake has died. He was 102. Blake died at his Hobe Sound, Florida home on Friday, according to a statement from the restaurant chain. Born April 15 ...

Friendly’s Ice Cream co-founder Curtis Blake has died. He was 102. Blake died at his Hobe Sound, Florida home on Friday, according to a statement from the restaurant chain. Born April 15 ...