Oldest Operating McDonalds Restaurant In The World
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A visit to the worlds oldest operating McDonalds restaurant in Downey California . Ordered some food , checked out the museum and made a new pigeon friend .
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I remember my first ever trip to our new McDonald’s in Terre Haute IN in 1960 right across from Wiley High School. Very smart to locate there! Prices were identical to what you showed here. I’d like to help you out a little, since I’m much older, the way the ketchup is placed in dots on the meat, there were these metal hand held machine that held the ketchup/mustard…and you would squeeze the handle and out came three perfect shaped evenly spaced dots. You would get a taste of ketchup in each bite, unlike most places now that put so much it drips on your clothes….or if you ask for easy on the ketchup, they put one tiny speck in the middle….grrrr. Also, the paper cup with the pull out handle was for coffee, not ice cream. Sounds kinda dangerous, but my mom would always get coffee w/her meals, so I remember well. Thanks for the video and memories!!
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They all should look like that still!
you keep mentioning ketchup..bro i never eat ketchup….like with my nuggets fries or sandwich …i eat them dry
Okay, If you like Mac tonight, you need to head to smitty’s super service station in Sandy Hook Mississippi, the owner has painstakingly collected and fixed an entire showbiz pizza show, and many of the pizza time theater animatronics. He even has some rides. You’d love it, plus it’s kinda in the boonies, so explore shall you?
#McDeath
Hope they never demolish it or “remodel it”
Agreed. Some things should just stay sacred.
Should be classified as a historic site.
There’s one close to my house in Oakland that barely got remodeled like last year I wish it had stayed how it was tho
Exactly!!
Eeew the remodels are ugly drab and boring. I want the color back…
It’s funny when you are old and look at things other people call artifacts… and you remember when they were new lol
I’m only 24 lol
An artifacts is not alawys old.An artifacts is any object made by the hands of humans .And and Ecofacts is a natural object
@Adventure Fighter “Here is my I Pod. This artifact is what you may call “proto-Spotify”. You see, back then technology was so bad you had to get separate devices to listen to music, because phones weren’t smart yet. So, every song was downloaded…”
@Tazzor loser 04 n down is safe
It’s only sad when u have to look at the old run down version of the restaurant that you were use to as a kid
I’m 92 and i met my 3rd wife in that mcdonalds. We use to park in the parking lot beside of that mcdonalds. I am one of the first guys to buy cheese burger there when they opened.
yes yes you got a **cheeseburger** and you where one of the first guy, and they totally didn’t sell hamburgers only.
@Stupid Conor Nice Target ?
AT 93 HE’S PART OF THE GREATEST GENERATION….
FOR YOUR INFO….THATS WHERE BOOMERS LIKE MYSELF CAME FROM ..DUH!
Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California….been there bunches of times…. Friday night hangout after Downey High football games….seen lots of fist fights…lots
Third wife ?
this is everything omg
That one looks much more inviting than the ones today.
@Jordan Gerstein McDonald’s now a days look like a prison, or feel and look like they are only for business men
McDonald’s today has that weird “urban hipster” design thing that just looks weird and off putting. It’s like they’re trying to make you think it’s a coffee shop instead of a burger stop.
No way it looks like an outdated diner. The ones that are being made today look more modern and stylish
Its kind of hard to compare them… one is a walk up while new locations have insides
And I’m the “new” generation
I remember when I was a kid the slogan was: McDonald’s is your kind of place, it puts a smile on your face!
@J Cool Guy 15 “I’m luvin it!” is just such a great slogan
The food used to be better before they switched to genetically modified ingredients.
I remember that Slogan. Thank You.
I’m lovin’ that slogan. No? Eh I tried to make that work. I was born in 2003 lol
Why does a building from decades ago suddenly look so futuristic?
History repeats itself. People looked more trendy in the 80s than they do now. Skinny jeans and long dyed hair on men was a huge thing. It’s way easier to stand out in 2021 than it was in the 1960s-1980s
@Trashy Coon2 Israel first Drumpf
@Trashy Coon2 Drumpf in 2021 haha Zion Don ?
@Zack Frisbee Trumptard blaming blacks for McDonalds looking boring. Sounds about right
Because back then, people were actually looking forward to the future. Now, that we know that we are doomed to live in a digital dystopian police state, the only thing you can look forward to is relocating on Mars.
That McDonald’s looks just like the one we ate at in 1956. I was very young, loved the strawberry shakes!!
Tell me how was they food back then I must know
@Big black crock Don’t be sad when I was a kid I believed that too
@Big black crock are you dumb stupid or dumb?
@Big black crock 1900 hundreds gang lmao how stupid are you
@Big black crock well there was actually color but not in tv and yes there’s a suspicious amount of these types of comments
“I’m sorry, we stopped serving breakfast in 1959”
Haha
It takes a lot of guts to walk into a public place and talk to the camera in front of people. Mad respect
Can’t tell you how much I love the museum. Sorry I’m geeking.
Hold on, is this the Krusty Krab?
This is technically the Krusty Krab’s father
No this is patrick
LMFAO
No it’s Patrick
Hold on, is this the number 1 nuisance on youtube ?
This is how McDonald’s looked in Mason City, Iowa in the early 60’s! Love it! Huge treat when we were kids! My parents never made more than about 6,000 dollars a year and we didn’t eat out! But once a month or so…huge treat. The fries and a chocolate shake were the bomb!
Isn’t it crazy in getting this recommended just after watching a MacDonalds documentary on the history channel, featuring this EXACT MacDonalds?
OMG SAME I WATCHED THE DOCUMENTARY tooo
It’s the algorithm.
Kinda wish the photos the “founder” were inside the toilet instead. Lol
A few comments: there was no “drive in” in 1953 – you would drive in, park in the parking lot, order at the window and take it back to the car to eat. That’s what everyone did. No in house seating. Also, the manikins are wearing newer uniforms. There were no women employees in the 50s and into the early 60s. Only men with crew cuts and white paper hats at the counter. You can see them in the old photos.
@Caprica2267 you were close the first Kroc era McdDonald’s opened in 1953 in Des Moines Ill not sure on the spelling. and although its not in operation the location still exists
Hi Darlene. You are right in every count. The original restaurants did not have “drive In” in their design and not seating either. Mr Kroc did not want people seating there for hours. If I’m not mistaken the first restaurant was in San Bernardino Owned by the Mcdonald Brothers. I think the very first one opened by Mr Kroc is the one in Oak Brook Illinois where the campus for the Mcdonald’s University and the Corporate offices are. Those uniforms on the manikins are from the 70’s made by Crest Uniforms. I worked in Mcdonald’s in Costa Rica from 1981 to 1990. I wore the Brown, Navy Blue and The Burgundy colors. We did not have in CR the green, light blue and the yellow uniforms. I do remember the toasters for the buns, the potato peeler machine, the old cashier register and of course the multi mixer for the Milk Shakes, really miss those
I`m 62 I use to eat there when they opened. Two cheeseburgers, fries, and a drink for under a buck. But if you wanted ketchup it cost 4 cents extra and they put it in a little white cup. BELIEVE IT or not.
@Hamboarding come on he didn’t go to Mcdonald’s the second he was born ???
@X F I’m 66 and on YouTube. YouTube has stuff for eveyone no matter how old you are.
I’m sorry that’s impossible you wouldn’t have been born then
I believe you.
Now the only thing you can get under a buck are deer nuts
OMG, I actually got to go there… by accident! Nevertheless, I discovered it and we got to enjoy looking back through its history as we enjoy some foods and eats back in 2015.
I recall there was a time when they stopped counting and just said “billions and billions sold”
That First Ronald McDonald with the Paper Cup nose is none other than “Willard Scott” of Today Show Fame. ? ? ?. PS… The uniforms on the mannequins are circa 80’s, I wore one. Mickey D’S was my first job in 1982… About 25 minutes away from the Downey Store on Harbor & McFadden in Santa Ana. ?
I saw that on a biography piece on Willard Scott in the early 2000’s on the Today show. ?