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Richard McDonald (1909–1998), American fast food pioneer and co-founder of McDonald's; Roy McDonald (poet) (1937–2018), Canadian poet and busker; Roy McDonald (politician) (born 1946), New York State Senator; Sandy McDonald (1937–2016), Scottish Minister of the Church of Scotland; Susan Marshall McDonald (1918–1992), philatelist of Ohio
McDonald was born on Long Island, New York. After leaving school, McDonald pursued a stage career, with a preference for comedy and music. In 1968, he was in Shreveport, Louisiana as the local TV station's Bozo the Clown. Later he moved to San Francisco, working as a cycle courier and joining the AAA Acting Company.
The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is the third one built, opened in 1953. It is located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California (at . Siblings Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California, on May 15, 1940.
Drive-Thru History. As with any claim to being “first,” there are a few challengers, but it’s believed that the first McDonald’s drive-thru made its debut in 1975 in Arizona.
The idea took off quickly, and within 10 years, Walmart had 50 stores and a new listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Today, there are over 10,600 stores in 24 countries, employing 2.3 million ...
McDonald's Plaza in Oak Brook, Illinois, home to company headquarters from 1971 to 2018 New Zealand's first McDonald's restaurant, in Porirua in September 1976. In 1970, the first restaurant outside of Northern America opened in San José, Costa Rica. [20] In 1971, [21] McDonald's opened its first European restaurant in Zaandam, Netherlands. [22]
There was a brief test run the prior year in 1985, where McDonald's brought the Halloween Pumpkin Happy meal to select restaurants throughout New York and Boston.
McDonald was born in New York City, to Patricia, a nursing professor and real estate agent, and James R. McDonald, an educator and high school principal. [5] [6] [7]Of Irish descent and a practicing Catholic, [8] [9] [10] he and his siblings were raised in Romulus, New York.