Archie Mishkin R.I.P.

 

(Idaho Mountain Express) Archie Mishkin passed away peacefully at the Good Samaritan in Boise, Idaho, on Oct. 30, 2012. Archie was 94 and began coming to Ketchum in the 1960s and lived in Ketchum since 1985.
Archie was born in Queens, N.Y., was in the Army serving in Italy in World War II and attended City College of New York. After the war he worked as an accountant in New York City and Havana, Cuba. While in Cuba he became a partner in a tobacco leaf dealer and eventually in the early 1950s became the president of Bayuk Cigars Inc. in Philadelphia, Pa. Bayuk made Phillies Cigars, Garcia Vega Cigars and other labels. Continued