McDONALDS 1955 and COMICS...ETC

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

Here is the first McDonalds menu and prices from 1955...McDonalds effectively was created in 1940 but not until subsequent changes and persons involved (Ray Croc) would it become the franchise chain in 1955...

 

 

You could get a comic for 10-cents and a Mcburger for $15-cents...2 bits

 

Comics would move to 12c in 1962. Thought it might be a cool thread to post what you could still buy for less than 2-bits (25-cents to you millenials)...say...before comics went to 15-cents in 1969...

 

 

A lot of those items are now on the dollar menu while comics are now four bucks a piece.

 

Not sure what would upset my stomach more, McD's food or reading a modern superhero comic.

 

I think I've eaten McDonalds food maybe six times in my whole life.

[trmoore54]

Where was the original McDonald's before Ray Croc purchased? I know the location was in Southern California.

 

Here's a fairly recent pic of the 1st McDonald's in Downey CA. I'm an architect and I declare this sign officially cool!!

 

[trmoore54]

 

 

I used to go there when I was five or six years old with my little sister who just learned to walk. It's only ten minutes away from my home.

 

This is a replica of first (chain restuarant) McDonald's in Des Planies near the former location.

 

 

This is cool

[trmoore54]

We didn't have a McDonald's in South Jersey when I grew up, but we had this place, a short walk from elementary school. Hamburgers 10 cents, cheeseburgers 15 cents, and milkshakes from dairy made on the premises for 25 cents. It was hard to save money for comics, baseball cards, or bubble gum with those temptations.

 

Many a birthday party was spent under that green awning.

 

 

 

We could get a cheeseburger and a coke at J. J. Newberry's at a counter with fixed stools for a quarter I think...might've been 35-cents...circa mid to late 60s. Man they were good...first burger I had that had mayo on it...and the counter-ladies were so nice to us little whippersnappers...

 

Source of income in Summers primarily was pop bottle refunds and mowing lawns...we were entrepeneurial though...we'd go door to door especially if we knew the homeowner was older and offered to mow the lawn...when they said yes we'd say..."got a lawnmower?"

[makeminemego]

Pure Beef Hamburgers my .

 

Cool old signs and buildings though. There's a pretty old one on the West end of Springfield, Illinois that looks kind of like those.