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An 1894 American Trade Card for Hires Root Beer A Hires Root Beer mug from the 1930s or earlier. Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires. The official story is that Hires first tasted root beer, a traditional American beverage dating back to the colonial era, while on his honeymoon in 1875. [2]
One of Hires's early competitors was Barq's, which began selling its sarsaparilla-based root beer in 1898 and was labeled simply as "Barq's". [11] In 1919, Roy Allen opened his root-beer stand in Lodi, California, which led to the development of A&W Root Beer. One of Allen's innovations was that he served his homemade root beer in cold, frosty ...
Charles Elmer Hires (August 19, 1851 – July 31, 1937) was an American pharmacist and an early promoter of commercially prepared root beer. He founded the Charles E. Hires Co., which manufactured and distributed Hires Root Beer .
A&W Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen [3] and primarily available in the United States and Canada. Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922, creating the A&W brand and inspiring a chain of A&W Restaurants founded that year. Originally, A&W Root Beer sold for five cents (equivalent to $0.91 in ...
The world's largest root beer float was created in 1990, when Barq's Root Beer cooperated with a Pick N Save grocery store in Dekalb, Illinois by mixing 1,500 U.S. gallons (5,700 L) of Barq’s root beer with 1,000 U.S. gallons (3,800 L) of vanilla ice cream in an above-ground swimming pool.
Crush (cream soda, birch beer, grape, lime, orange, pineapple) Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper; Hires Root Beer and cream soda; RC Cola; Schweppes (tonic water, ginger ale, diet ginger ale) Vernors; Stewart's Fountain Classics (Root Beer, Orange & Cream, Wishniak, Black Cherry, Key Lime, Cream Soda) Golden Cockerel (ginger beer) Sussex Golden ...
Liang Wenfeng is the founder of AI lab DeepSeek, whose AI chatbot shook tech stocks this week.. In a rare interview in 2023, he gave insight into his hiring strategy. "Experience is not that ...
Canfield's 50/50 was a grapefruit- and lime-flavored soft drink [7] [8] [9] In the late 1980s-early 1990s the 50/50 soft drink brand was bottled at Laurel Packaging, Inc. (now Pepsi Bottling Group), Johnstown, PA, and was distributed by the Will G. Keck Corporation (Kecksburg, PA) and also by D & M Management, Inc. (Davidsville, PA), an independent beverage distribution firm, in the West ...