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Old 08-06-2019, 01:13 AM   #1
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Default Free root beer floats

Tomorrow is national Root Beer Float Day
A&W and Carl Jrs are give free floats, 8 am - 8 pm, but check your area for times.
Probably some other places joining in, spread the word, take the kids, take the wife...take the A

Also known as the “Black Cow,” the root beer float got its start in Colorado in a mining camp. Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado, gets the credit for inventing the “Black Cow” way back in August of 1893.

One night Wisner, owner of the Cripple Creek Cow Mountain Gold Mining Company, was staring out the window and thinking about the line of soda waters he was producing for the citizens of Cripple Creek when he came upon an idea. The full moon that night shined on the snow-capped Cow Mountain and reminded him of a scoop of vanilla ice cream. He hurried back to his bar and scooped a spoonful of ice cream into the children’s favorite flavor of soda, Myers Avenue Red Root Beer. After trying, he liked it and served it the very next day. It was an immediate hit.

Wisner named the new creation, “Black Cow Mountain” but the local children shortened the name to “Black Cow”.
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Old 08-06-2019, 07:30 AM   #2
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Carls Jr is down the steet from me. Gotta try that. My favorite.
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https://www.awrestaurants.com/nation...float-day-2019
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Old 08-06-2019, 08:15 AM   #4
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All the Carls Jr closed here a year ago and no A&W,guess I'll make my own.
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Old 08-06-2019, 09:46 AM   #5
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All the Carls Jr closed here a year ago and no A&W,guess I'll make my own.
Our A&W's are in the same buildings as the KFC and Long John Silvers restaurants.
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Old 08-06-2019, 12:48 PM   #6
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We got TacoBell and LJ Silver. No A&W.
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Old 08-06-2019, 01:38 PM   #7
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No Carl's Jr and nearest A&W is 1-1/2 hour away, so no free float for me.

When I was a kid, Mom made black cows with coke instead of root beer - pretty good that way too.
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Old 08-06-2019, 04:09 PM   #8
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The last A&W in our area is in Mentone Northeast of Redlands. We've stopped there from time to time to get the grandkids a root beer float. The place deteriorated but they just remodeled.

My grandson attends Redlands East Valley (REV) High School just down the street. Tomorrow is his first day of school so we'll definitely stop by for the free root beer when I pick him up.

When I was in high school we had an A&W Drive-in with car service two blocks from my house in Redlands. They had the best hamburgers in town and the draft root beer in a frosty mug was great. It was torn down years ago.

My grandson is in the band at REV and they are having a car show in September so I plan to take the Roadster to the show and definitely go to A&W afterwards.

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Old 08-06-2019, 05:11 PM   #9
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Just got back. Most of the people just got the floats and not food.

We always go to this one. We have the same banner in our 50's room, that we bought off of e-bay, from one they were tearing down in Oregon.

When I was a kid we had one of the old round ones that was shaped like a barrel of root beer. It was a drive in, I miss that.

Ya think if I keep the mug for another 50 years, it will be worth anything?
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Old 08-07-2019, 02:38 AM   #10
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I was raised in a town of about 10,000. It had a Dog & Suds at one end and an A&W, a Dairy Queen, and a mom & pop root beer stand at the other. All but the DQ had car hops (not on roller skates though ). Cruising those places was "the strip". You also could take a turn through the city park that had rides, an arcade, and a Sno-Cone/cotton candy stand. This was back when a teenager with a good part-time job could still find a decent old car and afford to buy it and build it into a hot rod. Just outside town was a little-used, long, straight, two-lane blacktop that saw plenty of street races. Unfortunately, I didn't have "the fastest car in the valley". Yeah, I lived "American Graffiti", just on a smaller scale. The DQ is still there but sadly, all the rest is gone.

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