Alan Cohen, the A.C. behind A.C.’s Icees, celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday in Kennedy Park, where he has been serving chilled icees for more than four decades.
Friends and fans of Alan Cohen – the A.C. of A.C.’s Icees – came out on Sunday to celebrate Cohen’s 80th birthday in Kennedy Park, where he first parked his food truck more than 40 years ago. As legend has it, Cohen found his calling while relaxing in the park after moving to Miami in 1978. “Some of us were sitting under a tree in Kennedy Park,” he told the Spotlight in 2021, “and I said if I’m going to work again, I want this park to be my office.” He opened A.C. Icee’s a short time later, and the rest is history.
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