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A Thousand Words

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A Thousand Words

It has been said that a picture speaks a thousand words, in this case, this picture shows at the time over 1 million had been served and as of April 10, 2010, 1,264,564,043+ 245,359,187,809 = 246,623,751,852 Which Rounds to 247 Billion Sold.... as of June 2012, there are now more than 33,000 restaurants around the world in 118 countries. This one, original locations of the "Golden Arches" has obviously multiplied many times over. Who would have ever imagined.

One our way back from a trip to Lake Tahoe, I begged my boyfriend to stop at this historical location. This was Americana, this I had to see for myself, and so he agreed. Now a museum and "grave yard" store for all of the memoriblia, toys, signs, and former advertisemtents for McDonalds, walking was quite an odd experience, but one I am glad to have checked off of the bottom of my bucket list!

The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California (at 34.1255°N 117.2946°W). Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 furthered the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant that the White Castle hamburger chain had already put into practice more than two decades earlier. The original mascot of McDonald's was a man with a chef's hat on top of a hamburger shaped head whose name was "Speedee". for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s