Vernors soda pop was invented in 1866 by Dr. James Vernor.
Dr. Vernors was a pharmacist in Detroit. While working in a drug store he stated experimenting with ginger ale. The story goes he left some of his ginger ale experiment in a cork barrel for 4 years, because he went off to fight in the Michigan Calvary during the Civil War. After returning and opening the cork barrel he noticed the soda had been changed by a aging processes.
So 1896 James Vernor and his son closed the drug store and opened a soda bottle company on Woodward ave south of Jefferson.
He was a leading businessman in Detroit and severed on many boards before he died in Grosse Ile at age 84.
The Vernors company was trademarked in 1911. It is not the oldest ginger ale soda in America, but it is the oldest surviving ginger ale soda in America to this day!
Detroit and Vernors do hold the title for the oldest ice cream float in America. Long before A & W the most popular ice cream float in America. The Vernors ice cream float is sometimes called a "Boston Cooler". This is done by blending vanilla ice cream and Vernors together in a blender like a milk shake!
Hope you enjoy a Detroit invention! The "Detroit Cooler"!
love Detroit she needs you!
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