Here is something that no layout of the 1960’s should be without:
A McDonald’s with the original large golden arches!
This ‘retro’ style Micky Dee’s is in Ocean City, MD, on the Coastal Highway near 34th Street.
Once my track is laid, you can bet I’ll be scratchbuilding one of these guys![:p]
There’s an original (not a reproduction) McD’s with the large arches on US 54 between I-70 and Jefferson City, Missouri. Get off 70 at the Kingdom City exit and go south, it’s on the right (west) side of US 54.
Nice building. Was this the standard look of McDonald’s in 1960?
Now you got me on a roll…here’s some links that might be useful:
http://cmhpf.org/educationphoto12modern.htm
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/68500/68797mSuR_w.jpg
http://www.2020hindsight.org/manila_images/2020Hindsight/mcDarch1206sm.jpg
http://my63andme.homestead.com/files/AlmadenMacD.jpg
http://www.poster.de/Anonymous/Anonymous-The-Golden-Arches-8500019.html
http://www.wemweb.com/chr66a/sbr66_museum/sbmcdonalds_history.html
http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/eclong22564/37dfb0c0.gif
Etc., Etc.
Bon Appetite.
Try these links for an original Mickey D’s;
http://www.pophistorynow.com/popculturefiles/askmrpophistory_q67.htm
http://www.media.mcdonalds.com/secured/multi/storephotos/vintagestore/
http://www.korczynski.com/product.asp?ProductID=3220&DepartmentID=32
Does anyone remember the signs outside of the McDonald’s buildings stating “how many hamburgers have been served?”
I can remember the number on the sign would change as the years went on.
Man, I’m old.
BTW, my extended family has been helped by Ronald McDonald Charities, in providing a place for parents to stay while thier child is in a big city hospital seriously ill. So please don’t be afraid to throw your change into that plastic box on the McDonald’s counter.
Also, Target (the big stores with the red target on the building) helps with extended care for parents. [There’s another reason not to go to walmart].
Jim
Bill and Phil, those are excellent links!! Especially the ones from the Fifties…
I had a part time job at a McDonald’s in the St. Louis area in 1960. Pay was $1.00 an hour. The burgers were $.15. Cheeseburgers $.19. Drink choices were orange, coke, or root beer. You could get a chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry shake. There was only one size of fries. The sign said “Over one million sold”. Last time I saw a McDonald’s sign with the burger count on it, it said “Billions and Billions sold” As recently as the mid seventies McDonald’s advertised that you could eat lunch for less than a dollar. Those days are gone!
Okay, McDonald’s freaks – where was the first McDonald’s drive-in window?
Why, right here in little ol’ Sierra Vista, Arizona, on January 24th, 1975. (If you type the phrase ‘McDonald’s drive in’ into Google, you can get more information about this event)…
The franchisee came up with the idea of a drive-through window so military personnel from Fort Huachuca could get their meal without having to get out of their cars.
The dumb-dumb Commanding General of the fort at the time had decreed that no military personnel would be allowed to get out of their cars off post unless they were wearing their “Class A” dress uniform. Since almost everyone wore fatigues on post, the McDonald’s owner broached the idea of a drive-through window to McDonald’s headquarters.
His idea was nixed by them, but he went ahead and did it anyway, and the idea quickly spread to other McDonald’s around the country because Ronald McDonald attended the grand opening and told the know-it-all city slickers how popular the window was with customers.
Then the corporate big-wigs tried to take credit for the idea, but Ronald made sure customers knew otherwise everywhere he went.
That McDonald’s was torn down a few years ago to make room for a larger one. The bricks and other parts of the drive-in window were auctioned for astronomical prices.
The order-taking station’s speaker/microphone was a life-sized plastic statue of Ronald that is now on display inside the new restaurant. Many times I have noticed young children come into the joint and hug the legs of the statue as they pass by, thinking it is a real Ronald.
I am going to build one too, Nice pics…thanks for sharing
We have an early one in Bellflower Ca, it came within days of being razed for a Pep Boys parking lot , a rush of public outcry such as the city and Pep Boys had never encountered, caused Pep Boys to drop those plans and purchase and raze an ajoining property. I get there once a month for the cruise night.
For everyone in the Milwaukee-Chicago-Madison area there’s a McDonald’s just like the ones in the top photos on Highway 100 just south of Greenfield Avenue in New Berlin Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
I used to eat there all the time when my friends and I went golfing in Greenfield park.
KenLarson,
Somebody has been doing their homework I see!
Actually, I go by Philip.
There is an original 1950s Mc Donalds in Downey CA.It is at the corner of Rosemead,and either Firestone or Florence,can’t quite remember which right now[:(].
The McD’s in Downey is on the corner of Lakewood Blvd and Florence! I think it has landmark status now. I guess it might be worth taking a lunch hour and photographing it before it too passes away. I never thought of McD’s as a “transition era” structure… hmmm.
There is also a “classic” reproduction Mcdonalds at the Easton town center in Columbus Ohio. It is a very neat building. At one point someone made an ho scale mcdonalds building kit that looked like this one.I have no idea who made the kit,but i doubt that it is available anymore .We have one on are club layout.
I’ve only heard this third-hand, but someone told me there was a licensing dispute that led to the kit going out of production. They still show up occassionally at train shows - there was one at the recent GSMTS in Timonium, it sold for $109.
109 dollars is alot of money for a plastic kit that probably cost 3 dollars new when it came out.I have been trying to buy an ho scale ahm pizza hut kit on ebay for over a year now.they are selling for up to 50 dollars!!! I just want one for my layout because it looks like the pizza hut in my town.I also worked at pizza hut for about 4 years.I guess if our club needs a fundraiser we will retire our mcdonalds and sell it on ebay!!!LOL!
STOP !!! you guys are makeing me hungry lol [:D]
those are some nice pics
And when is my Model Power Kentucky Fried Chicken going to go up in value!!!