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An older single-arch McDonald's sign of historic significance is located outside McDonald's restaurant #91, 1587 Shawano Avenue in Green Bay, Wisconsin, dates from 1959, was restored in 2005, and still operates. The sign is located in front of a modern, retro-styled McDonald's restaurant.
When McDonald's was first founded in the 1940s by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, it was actually a barbecue-centric restaurant, serving items like ribs and barbecued pork sandwiches.
McDonald's realized that the Des Plaines restaurant had historical significance, so it built a replica. With gold arches placed over a glass and metal, red-and-white tiled exterior, the building largely followed the McDonald brothers' original blueprints, which they had introduced when they began franchising in 1953.
Menu Explodes. For years, McDonald’s was known as the place for burgers, fries and shakes. Today, the ever-expanding menu includes hundreds of options with featured favorites including the Big ...
Original McDonald's menu. Dick and Mac McDonalds' menu began with barbecue but was streamlined to hamburgers and cheeseburgers by the time Kroc showed up. Shakes (which cost more than the burgers ...
1978 photo of McDonald's restaurant in Chicago. Note the sign that states, "Over 25 billion served". 1974: On November 13, the first McDonald's in the United Kingdom opened in Woolwich, south-east London. It is the 3000th McDonald's restaurant. [61] 1976: The first McDonald's in Switzerland, on Rue du Mont-Blanc in Geneva. [62]
Run by brand archivist Mike Bullington, the McDonald's archives feature five semi trucks' worth of nostalgic Happy Meal toys, old packaging and treasures from company restaurants around the world ...
On 15 May 1940 the world’s first McDonald’s restaurant was opened in San Bernadino, California, by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald. The restaurant originally had 25 menu items and used ‘carhops’ to serve customers in their vehicles.