Janet Marsh, a retired U.S. Postal Service supervisor, isn’t sitting around doing nothing. She is the proud owner of Mesquite, Texas’s only Black-owned, year-round storefront snow cone shop, Snow Cone City.
The 63-year-old founded the company two years ago to remember her late husband’s unwavering support. Marsh came up with the idea while driving around Mesquite, when she observed something missing: there were no Black-owned snow cone shops, according to Black Business.
When she brought the concept home, her late husband, Clarence, and their family embraced it right away. They started off together with a modest trailer, which gradually expanded into the storefront that is now a popular community landmark that is open year-round…