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Now owned by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Vernors was first made in the late 1800s. According to company history, it was invented in 1866, though Serious Eats notes its 1911 trademark application says it first entered the market 1880. Either way, that's pretty old -- older than Coca-Cola or Dr Pepper.
Roxanne started her first business at age six, and sold tadpoles door-to-door in dusty West Texas for a penny apiece. The store opened as a pop up shop (before pop ups were a thing) in Larimer Square for six weeks starting in Thanksgiving 1989. Surprisingly, people recognized Cry Baby. The New York Times was the first publication to write about the shop.