Floats

Perhaps it was a new thing. Perhaps I was just out of the jungle. But it was good to have the first taste of Root Beer and root beer float. And at the A&W outlet.

I did not know what A & W stood for.  But I was able to know more about it many years later.

It was a chain of fast food restaurants. And its signature drink was root beer. Root beer flots and burgers became university students' lunch or dinner in the 70's. It was hip to be seen in A & W.

Roy Allen set up a roadside drink stand to offer root beer at a parade honouring returning WW1 Veterans in Lodi California.

In 1922, Allen and Frank WRight , Allen and Wright or A & W, founded their first restaurant in Sacramento, California.

The probably invented the frosty mugs ( keeping their mugs in the freezers).