Yup, the one here in Kirkwood, MO seems to have been gentrified out of existence.
Yep. There used to be one in the shopping center by my house growning up. It was on a corner next to the Hallmark (that Hallmark, incidentally, is the only place in that center that hasn’t changed since then). They closed it when I was about seven or so, and turned it into a currency exchange. My dad used to take me there on Sundays.
Yes and no. There are two near where I live and they have been in business since the 70s. However, one location moved further down the street in the late 80s as the rent at the original location went up. Same owner, different place, but people probably thought otherwise.
Sure. We had one up here a two minute walk from my house in the late 70s. Gone now. Also, the one in a local shopping mall is gone.
Downtown Arlington Heights, IL, used to have one. It’s still an ice cream shop but no longer a B-R. However, a B-R has been added to the Dunkin’ Donuts less than a mile away.
Also in downtown AH, a Cold Stone Creamery opened, stayed in business five years and closed again. Their location was actually kind of lousy though.
FWIW, I’ve never seen a Dairy Queen go out of business. Around my neck of the woods are many old 1950s and 1960s DQs, with just outdoor window service, that are open only four months a year. All the DQs I remember from my childhood in the 1970s are still there, and mostly intact.
The two nearest my mom’s house in Tucson have both gone out of business in the last 5 years or so.
There was one near my house in San Diego 15 years or so ago, but i’s gone now. For that matter, one opened in Ho Chi Minh City in the lobby of one of the nicer hotels on Dong Khoi ST, but closed a few years later. That’s a special case though as it was ridiculously expensive at the time by local standards.
The one from my childhood moved across town when I was in high school, and is closed now.
The one in Grand Junction CO went out of business. They switched to another ice cream franchise (Double Rainbow, maybe?), that no one here ever heard of, then closed completely after a Coldstone Creamery opened in a better business location. CC is still around.
One here in Ottawa, Ontario closed, and turned into a “Wizard of Pawz” pet salon. I only remember that because of this (unfortunately) funny photo that it produced:
Lucky Chow is actually a really good Chinese food place, but is now the butt of a myriad of jokes, being lodged in between a doggy spa and a veterinarian clinic, which were formerly a Baskin Robbins and Wine store, respectively.
There was one right next door to the University of Kentucky where I was treated to ice cream quite often as a kid. (My parents were professors.) Sometime around my high school years it went away and there’s now a Thai restaurant there. However, the one in a shopping mall closer to our home, where my brother got his first job at age 15, is stil open.
This is moderately wierd…
There was one on El Camino alongside the airport (SFO) - a very low-rent strip (hub-cap store, ancient car wash, cheap auto parts, etc. It is, not suprisingly, gone.
One in the inner Sunset area of SF is still there - that neighborhood is now the “new chinatown” - there are a couple of residual western places (the Hallmark store folded, the pizza place is now a Chinese buffet). Selling ice cream to asians is a dicey business, but it is still there.
SF has an enormous appetite for ice cream, but I would have never guessed it would extend to people who can’t digest it (asians are almost all lactose intolerant)
There was a Baskin-Robbins in Charlottesville VA that is now a Ben & Jerry’s. Don’t know if BR went out of business first or if it was some sort of merger/deal.
There is not one single Baskin-Robbins left in Omaha. I have no idea why this is–most chains are moving IN here, not moving out.
My folks live in Kearney, NE–a college town about 1/20 the size of the Omaha metro. They have a Baskin-Robbins, and flat out don’t believe that we don’t.
Not a single Baskin Robbins in the entire state of Minnesota. The landscape used to be littered with them.
The one I went to a time or two while growing up in Harrisburg PA (right at the intersection of Progress Ave and Route 22) is gone, per Bigyellow.com. There are a number of others not too far away, however.
Our Baskin Robbins on the shopping strip closed about five years ago. It seems odd as it had a good business I thought. Later a competitor opened near the college.
ETA: The local Dairy Queen has been in busines for over fifty years and thrives during the summer months. They make enough money for the owners to spend their winters somewhere warm!
Another Minnesotan reporting the demise of Baskin-Robbins. In fact, after a surge of popularity some years ago, ice cream outlets in general seem to have nearly vanished. The only exceptions I can think of are franchises that serve shakes and sundaes of whatever ersatz ice cream that soft serve is made of; ranging in quality from excellent (Cold Stone Creamery) down to Dairy Queen and McDonald’s. It’s damn difficult to get a real ice cream cone anywhere around here. I can only suppose that the real thing would cost more than people will pay nowadays.
Huh, that’s weird because they are expanding like crazy around here. Five years ago there was only one within reasonable driving distance (it was a mob scene during their annual ice cream giveaway) but now there are at least four I can think of. All of them exept the original one are Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts combos.