(Contributed photo from Terry Toler) A giant frosty root beer mug has stood atop ... In 2011, a newly restored mug sign was returned to its original, frosted-side-up stature.

Ellen Hillstrom, development director of the South Venice Civic Association, drank her first glass of Frosted Mug root beer not long after ... who kept a trove of old photos of the restaurant ...

The root beer came out first, in a heavy frosted mug. It was a little sweeter and less carbonated than the average root beer, but it hit the spot. My lunch quickly arrived a few minutes later with ...

reader Dorothy Tenbush asked an earlier version of this column for the name of “a root-beer place (during the 1940s on Broadway, near a Pig Stand restaurant) that gave out frosted mugs.” ...

It’s a win that Mug Root Beer is celebrating by offering free root beer to fans nationwide. The Pepsi-owned brand announced this offer at the beginning of the tournament on social media ...