What year did the root beer float start?!
What year did the root beer float start?
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I checked it says 1893
by frank j wisner
while rootbeer was
intrduced in may 16 1866
by charles elmer hires
first brand:hires(still around)
I am guessing sometime in the 1950's. A & W Root Beer stands may have initiated it.
The root beer float is thought to have been invented by Frank J. Wisner in August of 1893. He was inspired to "float" a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of his Myers Avenue Red root beer from his late night glimpse of the snow on top of the blackened Cow Mountain (location of his gold claims) illuminated by the full moon overhead.
1893
I DON'T KNOW.