Thought to be the first McDonald’s store when I posted the original article… but turned out that it’s a museum which was modelled after the first McDonald’s Restaurant opened by McDonald’s Corporation founder, Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1955.

Picture of the McD museum in Des Plaines, USA
The McDonald museum in Des Plaines (Image by Sgt Fun)

The first McDonald’s was actually opened by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California in 1948… the Des Plaines restaurant was the ninth outlet but is often regarded to be the beginning of the modern McDonald’s franchise that exist today [more McDonald's history on Wiki]


One Response to “McDonald’s #1 Store”

  1. #1. RON DIBERTO on April 9th, 2009

    we used to have one like this in Lowell, Ma. It was awesome to see when growing up. But the biggwiggs at McDonalds headquarters felt it was time for a change. so instead of making an addition for customers they destroyed it build a new and improved example. The old sites are of massive historical value and they destroyed it.


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