Buildings and Sites
Downtown Chippewa Falls Root Beer Stand Slated to Reopen
7 Mar 2022
News, Chippewa County
After nearly three decades, a family with Chippewa Falls roots is returning to resurrect a historic family-owned local business.
A small A&W Root Beer stand opened in downtown Chippewa Falls in the early 1930s, operating there until being sold to Norman Kaste in 1946. Following the sale, the building was moved to its current location of 12 E. Elm St., where the A&W Root Beer drive-in served as the primary social gathering location for high school students through the 1950s and 1960s. In 1988, the building was sold to owner Mary Ann Smith and became Mary Ann’s Root Beer Stand.
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