A&W On the Ball

To enjoy a frosty mug of A&W Root Beer with as many cachers as possible on his journey to Wyoming. This bug was inspired by youthful days of bike riding to an A&W in Worland, Wyoming. Cooper Pair now lives in Northern California and was pleasantly surprised to find that A&W started in Lodi, not far away. We were going to start the football there, but a BADGES geocaching dinner will be a better option, after he's had a cold one (root beer that is). Pics would be appreciated.

A little A&W History:

One hot day in June of 1919, in Lodi, California, an entrepreneur named Roy Allen mixed up a batch of creamy root beer and sold the first frosty mug of this delightful beverage for one nickel. Now, seventy years later, A&W Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer and is still made fresh daily and sold at hundreds of A&W Restaurants.

Allen purchased the formula for his root beer from a pharmacist in Arizona. To this day, the unique blend of herbs, spices, barks and berries remains a proprietary secret.

With the success of his first root beer stand in Lodi, Allen soon opened a second stand in nearby Sacramento. It was there that what is thought to be the country's first "drive-in" featuring "tray-boys" for curb side service, opened up.

In 1922, Allen took on a partner, Frank Wright, an employee from his original Lodi location. The two partners combined their initials - "A" for Allen and "W" for Wright and formally named the beverage, A&W Root Beer, Three units were opened in Sacramento, then on to other northern and central California locations and to the states of Texas and Utah.

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