Skipper salutes you, Mr Robbins!

At the summer gets well underway, we wanted to take a brief moment to honor one of the true legends in the ice cream business, Irvine Robbins, who died in early May at the age of 90.

As the other half to Baskin, if there was an ice cream hall of fame, he'd surely be near the very top.

After the jump, here's a memorial from New York Times and that picture, well, that's just someone who obviously discovered the joys of brining one of life's purest joys -- ice cream -- to adoring customers the world over.

Skipper salutes you indeed!