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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.
From the Beginning. Weeres Pontoons was formed in 1952 from a mill ownerâs simple idea. In the rural town of Richmond, Minn., Ambrose Weeres had theorized that if you put a wooden platform on top of two columns of steel barrels, welded together end to end, you would have a sturdy deck that would be more stable on a lake than a conventional boat. With his first prototype, the pontoon boat was born.