The only thing I have ordered at a drive-thru in the past 10 years is a coffee. Shitty food, wrong orders, long waits.... Nope.

I didn't have the same privilege that most of the posters in this thread have I grew up in a very small town in south eastern Idaho. We only had an Artic Circle and it always had a drive through. I guess Idaho hicks are a bit forward thinking

IIRC you could get 5 burgers for $1.00 back in the day before Mc D's at the Burger Chef and the Whataburger building was built in a round shape with the roof looking like the top of the burger bun in shape and with lettice and tomato visible. ....................................... drill sgt.

To this day McDonalds has the best fries in the fast food business.

The burgers, not so much.

I was there when McDonald's opened in Phoenix on Central Ave at Indian School Rd.

We cruised central from the Phoenix public library to McDonald's and back again, every Friday and Saturday night. Probably 300 hot rods with guys and girlfriends.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
To this day McDonalds has the best fries in the fast food business.

The burgers, not so much.

I wish they'd go back to heat lamps and ready to go food. I remember being handed my bag of food at the register by the time I was done paying and the food would all be hot.

Now it's get done paying, then go stand somewhere for 5 minutes to be handed a burger that's lukewarm at best if I dig into it immediately. I worked at one as a teenager, and if the car in drive through wasn't gone in 30 seconds, there was a problem. Now I know if there's more than 2 cars in drive through I'm going to waiting at least 10 minutes.

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
The only thing I have ordered at a drive-thru in the past 10 years is a coffee. Shitty food, wrong orders, long waits.... Nope.

The McDonalds in my hometown was #312 opened May 22, 1962, in Kingsport, TN. I remember the "Over ?? Million Sold Sign" .

I can remember if you had good grades and showed your report card to the manager you got a free meal.

I recall working at a McDonald's during my freshman year in college. During the year I worked there we got both breakfast (late 1976) and a drive-thru window (spring 1977).

This was in Scotch Plains NJ. The store is still there, but has been completely renovated.

I also remember going to the Des Plaines store as a little kid with my dad (mid 60's), buying burgers and shakes, and sitting on the trunk of the car watching the planes fly overhead to/from O'Hare.

The Founder, a movie with Nick Offerman and Michael Keaton was pretty ok.

If you like Mc Donald's history.

They used beef lard (good fat) to make their fries back then.

Remember my parents taking us to the first McDonalds in Lexington, on New Circle Road, started in 1961

First McDonalds Lexington



Remember Burger Shake as well, it's still there started in 57 not McD's but a local Burger place... They always advertised the price of the burger in the sign, until it got to a dollar, so they had to change the sign finally.



Burger Shakes

Any of our KY members remember eating at Taco Tico, there were a bunch of them in Central KY area.... Better than Taco Bell...

We drove about a half an hour to hang out there on Friday nights. The happening place, or so we thought.
You had to buy something every hour or they'd run you out of the parking lot.

Mac's twice a month and Dog N Suds twice a month.
When I was in single digits.

One of my high school teachers in the 80's that was reaching retirement age told us a story:

In the 50's she tutored a student that need help. The student's mother said she could not afford to pay anything in thanks for the tutoring, but her boss was opening a burger restaurant and he offered to let her invest $500.

The teacher went home and discussed this investment opportunity with her husband and he said she was crazy to even think of investing $500 in a silly burger restaurant. Needless to say they didn't invest.

The student was the child or Ray Kroc's secretary. $500 then would be today...?

that sign bring back many fond memories.


I think for about two years it had the brightest most wonderful lights in all of Iowa City.

In the winter supper was after dark and it was a delight to go see all those colors , and the blinking and the motion .

They have a sign like that in the Henry Ford Museum. Looks great too.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
They have a sign like that in the Henry Ford Museum. Looks great too.

IIRC, The HFM conducted a nationwide search for that sign and ended up “finding” the one at the McDonalds located in Madison Heights, MI on JohnR Rd, just down the street from Universal Mall, from Montgomery Wards.

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Originally posted by tanner:

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
They have a sign like that in the Henry Ford Museum. Looks great too.

IIRC, The HFM conducted a nationwide search for that sign and ended up “finding” the one at the McDonalds located in Madison Heights, MI on JohnR Rd, just down the street from Universal Mall, from Montgomery Wards.