McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) turns 85 years old on May 15. The original McDonald's restaurant was opened by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, on this date in 1940. In 1948, the ...

McDonald’s Corporation stands as a colossus in the global fast-food landscape, renowned universally for its signature ...

It was this McDonald’s that debuted 85 years ago at 1396 N. E St. The restaurant, called “a drive-in cafe” in a May 1940 news clipping, had a jukebox and a cigarette machine. Also, a ...

Humble beginnings. The first McDonald’s restaurant was opened on May 15, 1940, in California.It was opened by two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald.

But still McDonald’s. Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald had launched a drive-in restaurant, The Airdrome, in Monrovia in 1937 out of an octagonal building.

It was this McDonald’s that debuted 85 years ago at 1396 N. E St. The restaurant, called “a drive-in cafe” in a May 1940 news clipping, had a jukebox and a cigarette machine. Also, a ...

But the 1950s McDonald’s sign remains in place, and the office behind it is famously an unofficial McDonald’s museum. And the first step toward McDonald’s came 85 years ago.