Emack & Bolio's

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name = Emack & Bolio's

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foundation = 1975
founder = Robert Rook
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location = United States
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industry = Retail
products = Ice cream
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homepage = http://www.emackandbolios.com/
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Emack & Bolio's is a chain of ice cream stores based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The chain was founded by Robert Rook, a lawyer and self-declared hippie who has worked closely with the homeless, Vietnam war protesters, civil and gay rights advocates, and numerous rock bands such as Aerosmith, U2, Boston, The Cars, and James Brown. Emack and Bolio's was founded in 1975, three years before Ben and Jerry's used the concept of a hippie ice cream store. There are now a few stores in other states, including New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee,Texas, and Illinois. The mascot is now a red-eyed moose whose name is Stoney.

It has been noted that Emacs, text editing software popular with computer programmers, and BOLIO, a text-formatting program, were developed within walking distance of a store near MIT. The explanation by the GNU Emacs Project does not indicate a connection, though there is a humorous hacker koan that does.

Name

The store was named after two homeless men for whom Robert Rook did pro bono work, who asked that the ice cream shop be named after them::“Two homeless gentlemen that the lawyers did pro bono work for asked that the ice cream shop be named after them.” [cite web
url=http://www.emackandbolios.com/roots.htm
title=Our Rock ’n Roll Roots
accessdate=2008-06-23] [A picture of Emack and Bolio is available at: cite web
url=http://www.emackandbolios.com/past.htm
title=Blast From The Past
accessdate=2008-06-23] Emack and Bolio were mascots of a sort for the first store.

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External links

* [http://www.emackandbolios.com/ Emack & Bolio's website]
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ GNU Emacs - GNU Project]