The World's First McDonalds - Birthplace of Fast Food - San Bernadino's History Gem! Randomland
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- The World's First McDonalds - Ever!
Once a hot spot on Route 66, this place is now located on a quiet suburban street. Although the original building was replaced by the McDonald Brothers' classic "Golden Arches" design in the 50s, and later torn out altogether, the site was saved from demolition by Juan Pollo founder Albert Okura and turned into an unofficial McDonald's museum.
Admission is free! I tried to get in contact with Juan Pollo about filming, but never received an answer, so I just sort of showed up and had a "Shhh" party of my own for a few hours. This is just a quick look at the museum and a quick review of the first McDonald's history. Some day we hope to revisit the museum and interview the owner, and we're definitely going to have to spend some more time on McDonalds' fascinating history as well.
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PS: Thanks to Brian D Buckley for stopping by that day and braving the incredible HEAT inside that building! Whew!!!!!!
Visit the McDonald's Museum Website to learn more and find out how to donate your McDonald's items! : juanpollo.com/route-66-attract...
These old videos sure do cheer me up when I'm down.
That is so cool you did a show there! I grew up in San Bernardino. Went to SBHS just down the street a block or so from there! Passed by that building a million times. Such a neat little piece of history.
this is the first time anyone has ever said, with a smile, "were back in San Bernardino"
I say it all the time cause I live in downtown san Bernardino and a lot of the time we go to Los Angeles to visit my family
Love rewatching these classic Randomland episodes.
The first 60 seconds what a stand up guy to buy the land and keep it OG and still left 3/4 of the building open to public for free... If you ask me McDonald's owes him more than a fucking happy meal.
I agree! Apparently the owner's had a bit of trouble here and there with the corporation, but so far through thick and thin he's managed to keep the place open to the public... for FREE!
I really enjoyed the video, as always you have great content. Keep up the great videos I can't wait to see whats next Thanks.
***** Thanks~!!! Back at Disneyland next!
LiveFastDiePoor Cool! I can't wait.
I remember the merry go round thing and the hamburger jail looking thing from when i was young. Makes you remember all the characters they eliminated. You dont even really see grimmace or any of them anymore... only on those plastic bibs for the kids. Even Ronald appears less and less.
I remember my sister had the playskool McDonald's play set and I had one of the wastebasket banks.
Those were characters too.
Kicking myself that I didn't keep it, but I was around five years old when I got it. I'm pushing 50 now.
That's another great video. And there is still so much more to the story. There in the parking lot, the McDonald's operation inspired a couple high school friends, Glen Bell and Neil Baker, to start a fast food restaurant. Bell's Burgers introduced the first fast food taco. Neil Baker followed up with his own restaurant, Baker's Drive Thru. Glen Bell went on to start Taco Tia, El Taco and his most famous restaurant chain, Taco Bell. A cook from Taco Tia, Ed Hackbarth, started Del Taco. An associate of Glen Bell's, John Galardi, started Der Wienerschnitzel.
Glen Bell's wife named Der Wienerschnitzel.
Yes, Glen Bell's wife really did come up with the name! I recently found out that I have a vague connection to the story. A common thread to the beginnings of fast food is Murray's Restaurant Supply in Colton. He supplied the McDonald brothers, Glen Bell and Neil Baker. My parents and grandparents even bought their drug store soda fountain supplies from Cecil Murray. My older brother once told me that he remembered Cecil Murray because he never knew anybody else named Cecil. The architecture of my business was based on a restaurant in Redlands called the Burger Bar, which was based on McDonald's "burger bar." It had a Googie-like style. I wonder if that is where Walt Disney got the name of the Tomorrowland Space Bar, because the Burger Bar was once a prominent restaurant on the road to Palm Springs. I know the Taco Tia across the street, along with other restaurants in Redlands, was popular with celebrities.
Speaking of Googie architecture I went to the oldest remaining Bob's Big boy last night and went and took pics of the very first Ihop which was located across the street. You can still see the pitched roof and Ihop style windows but they removed the sign recently.
Which Bob's is that? I've been to the classic one in Toluca Lake, near Warner Bros. There's a newer Bob's Big Boy (built in 1998) just down the street from me here in Calimesa. I mention that one because Ben Stein wrote that he stops there on the way to Rancho Mirage and likes the food.
It's actually Burbank but yeah, that's the oldest remaining Bob's. The first Bob's was in Glendale Ca. but it is no longer there. Did you know that McDonald's created the Big Mac to Compete against the Big Boy Burger? That's why the Big Mac looks like a rip off of the Big Boy with the 3 slices of bread and shredded lettuce.
Amazing work Justin. They keep getting better !
It's a miracle! You survived Berdo!
Hey I love your show! I could easily see you hosting a show on TLC or History channel! Also - I'm also from Burbank and graduated from Disney :) Thanks for the great content.
Great vid as always! Keep up the great work!
Thanks! :D
Great job Justin. All I can say is "Robble-robble."
Hahaha sweet
"Adam the woo??"
Bahahahhahaha!!!!!
Appreciated this Justin, thanks.
Thank yoU!!!
5:06 nice reference to Adam ;)
Greetings from the land of Bridgegate and Super Storm Sandy(insert dramatic music)
Just subscribed to your channel and I give it a double thumbs up. You have a plethoria of knowledge regarding Ditneyland and other Weird Roadside Attractions. Keep up the good work..
Still have all my 80s happy meal toys...thought I would be the only one on Earth super excited by a piece of McDonald's flooring...wrong! U rock! :)
:"> Thank you!
A fascinating insight into the history of MccDonalds!
Thanks Ryan!
LiveFastDiePoor knotts berry farm as lot of history and sea world and six flags as lot of history , I remember some of old ride at knotts berry farm
this is really interesting thanks, for making a video about one of the most popular fast food chains in the country. if you ever go to wisconson go to m and m's in door county i would love to see a video of that thank you.
I watched this video years ago and just got back from 'The Founder', man the McDonald Brothers story made me kinda sad :(
I have been to this original McDonalds location once with a friend...it's great. I love all the classic toys they have. My favorite though is the climb up hamburger tower they have out front. I'm thirty two and I remember playing with all those play place artifacts. You should continue the Juan Pollo videos and go to Roys cafe in Amboy, which is a town also owned by the owner of Juan Pollo. Great route 66 hotel. I would love to see what info you dig up on that place. If you have fans of route 66 or are a fan of it yourself, also check out Oatman Az. They have wild donkeys running the street and it used to be a mining town.
Yes to all of it! :)
7:27 always remember to buckle up! We want you to be around as long as possible to keep making more awesome videos.
Would love to see what you could do with some other theme park history too. Maybe Sea World, and Six Flags (wear a bullet proof vest) and some other lesser knowns... :)
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Good vid! Keep up the good work
Thank you! Will do !!!!!
Great video
Awesome video! Love the animation too. You make amazing videos.
Thanks Kenny!
Rubble rubble-the hamburglar from McDonald im lovein' it
Great video. Never knew much about McDonald's history
Thank you! It's bizarre how much history there actually is, but the original tales are pretty fascinating to me somehow
It's amazing that such a routine place like McDonald's can have such a storied history behind it. Thanks for discovering all of these little heard of places Justin!
Nnononono, Thanks for watching Vaughn!!!
Loved this place! Just visited a few months ago. Very interesting
I remember when I was young I was so scared of Ronald McDonald lol!! Thank you for showing the toys from the happy meals brought back memories keep the videos coming :)
:D You're welcome! Thank YOU for watching!!
Im loving it! Lol
LOL!!!!!
Wow i need to visit this it seems awesome XD
Good job man. Totally forgot about the McNugget Buddies. Loved those guys.
Thanks Matt - so did I!
A tour of the studio/neighborhood where Bewitched was filmed would make my....life! ;)
funny how things change, good work J
Thank you Justin.
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Justin, first up great work on your videos man, I enjoy watching your style of vid. BUT could you alter the sound of that balloon please? It's so damn loud, just tone it down some. CHEERS!
Awesome, didn't know McDonald's started in San Bernadino. o.o
I have been to one of the preserved McDonald's, it's up near LA and has a smallish museum of McDonald's stuff, but I haven't been there for a long while.
when will you be doing another disneyland video because it would be great to learn more awesome disneyland stuff before i go next week. oh btw i plan to have a bag of doritos. thnx c:
The McDonald’s that you are visiting is one of the original mc Donald’s if the M what’s still there but the actual first McDonald’s BRANDED restaurant was opened here in des plains Illinois
Great one Justin. The only food to taste the same wherever you might be. From the largest restaurant in the UK to the most expensive meal in Norway. Hope to see more Disney Videos soon. Crossing fingers for Disney California Adventure Park.
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YES!!! David Bowie references!
I had forgotten how creepy some of the old McDonalds Characters were. My parents hated McDonalds so I never got to go there as a kid. Interesting video.
I'm going to check this place out the next time I'm in SB.
White Castle was the first to sell hamburgers outside of fairs, festivals and street vendors, started in 1921 which Started the fast food chain
That guy on the thumbnail eating the hamburgers looks like Quagmire.
Happy easter
New intro! Woo!
now i want mcdonald but my dad cant even keep 2 dollars without spending it
4:35 what’s that song called
"Moonman, moonman, can't you see?"
lol notorious kkk
Party On Dudes! Be Excellent to each other !
I really want that grace costume. Plus posting on a year old vlog makes me feel like an historian
3:39 YAY FURBY
I love your videos man! We totally need to be friends! :D
Cool
My nephew doesn't want to go to Mcdonalds anymore because i showed him that creepy japanese mcdonalds commercial lol nice video by the way!
This video was so funny XD
Nice video for this I gave you the 1k like
If you want to tie this in with your Disney videos here's a factoid. Walt and Ray Kroc were in the same Infantry (maybe not right word) of Ambulance Corps in World War One.
I wish one day i will come to San Bernardino for 80th anniversary of world first restaurant only McDonald's. #Mcdonalds80
Drove past a McDonald's in northern Illinois that claimed it was the first, so I was a bit confused when I found out the original was in San Bernadino. Was the one in Illinois the first of Ray Kroc's?
+Mickey784cr That is correct. That McDonald's in Illinois is Ray Kroc's, so it's his first but not THE first.
+Mark Lawrence thats also where "Burger U is located, the World HQ for McD's
Ha, "Is funny cause its .. okay." XD
I think you are going to need to see the founder movie
Great Video. You should do one on IN-N-OUT. Being from the mid west In-N-Out is always one of my first stops when I head west. Do people east of the Mississippi River even know about the wonders of In-N-Out?
A few! They've expanded their range quite a bit, I believe there's one in Dallas now. Not sure if that's good or bad :0
I lived in san berdoo for 16 years and even lived a few blocks away from the museum on magnolia street but I never once went inside.
after watching the mcdonalds movie me never eaten there again
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Keep up your god work
You are the best!!!
xx
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wow, I always thought first McDonalds was in downy.
McDonald's is America. I have tons of happy meal memories. I would love to see that in person.
Greetings from Buenos Aires, eating a cheeseburger at McDonalds 24hs. Great job Justin.
Fast food history is pretty interesting. I recommend the book Fast Food Nation.
YES!
5:08 Adam the woo!
There's a Mickey D's in Norwalk... Downey perhaps that still has the architecture of the old McDonald's from the 1960's. You might want to do a show there
That's in Downey and is the oldest operating Mc Donald's in the chain.
In honor of this video, I will be going to McDonald's for lunch today.
:D Mickey D's!
Good job. History is a good area for you to expand. Hewel Hauser (may he rest in California golden peace) died and there's definitely a job opening now.
This is literally 10 minutes away from my house!
He should make a video about the Hookers on Baseline.
spel10001 oh my god xD that was hilarious
Awesome video. I do wish you had mentioned that the first Ronald McDonald was none other than weatherman Willard Scott and he looked downright creepy. I mean who doesn't look creepy with a box on their head and cup for a nose?
I really meant to but when I got home I realized I had only stared at his photos and never shot any footage of them. :( I definitely intend to go back though!
Still one very awesome video. I could watch your videos all day, actually did that once with the Disney ones. I love Disney history, even wrote a paper in college on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.
Young? Ray Kroc was 50 in the year 1954
Lol mac tonight used to scare the poop out of me as a kid! I had the toy of him in the red convertible and I had nightmares he came out of my toy chest and floated into my face. Idky though. I also had a morbid fear of a bar lamp in my basement :P
Juan Pollo is actually pretty damn good.
I wrote to Willard Scott and he gave me a signed photo of him as Ronald! I also have a McDonalds hat with 75 pins on it that I found at Goodwill. Wigwam.
That's awesome!! They did have a few photos of him in there that I THOUGHT I got footage of but apparently I just stared at them for a long time because when I got home I couldn't find it!
I have a need for some Fries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,..................... Justin!,........Past the Ketchup!. :)
Woo hoo!! San Bernardino!!
... Ok, now back to Disneyland, please =P (I'm a San Bernardino resident, by the way.)
Nothing Can Kill The Grimace
Lol I honestly think it's pretty funny how McDonald's came from somewhere like San Bernardino xD
The way it is now, it's hard to imagine that part of SB being a "hot spot" but I suppose when LA was smaller and Disneyland was just a twinkle in Walt's eye it was a lot different in Southern California!
Very true; I hadn't thought of that! :)
I know, but still. lol it's just kind of funny tho think about.
It was a predominantly white area back then, so it was a prosperous place.
It was also prosperous when The Gabrielino Indians were there before the dusty wagons showed up.
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can you do the mc donalds from downey california
I was under the impression the original McDnalds was in Hemet, CA!
The first trailer park was there........jk
I was eating mcdonalds while watching this video.
Wait, no Giant Dick Burger ( McDonalds surprising but true history revealed! (American History with Byron Sinn - episode 4) )? Fantastic ATW cameo. Also, I had a ton of Mac Tonight toys when I was a kid, but up until watching this video, I had no idea what the hell a crescent moon head man wearing sunglass was doing hawking McNuggets. I kinda still don't know why, but at least I know his name is Mac Tonight. Thanks, Justin!
My parents had a chance to invest in the original McDonalds and didn't. Which is rather ironic because they owned five restaurants after that and they all failed.
Love your show and gave a thumbs up, but I don't eat McDonald's.
It's ok, I can't eat McDonalds even if I wanted to since almost everything there's a risk for wheat allergy. :/
I know this is a McDonald's video, but what is Disneys corporate stance on GMO's?
Are you related to the hamburglar?
You two look alike haha
Nice vid but what happened to disneyland? Nothing beats that.
Nothing happened to it. It's still there. ;)
I thought the first McDonalds started in Des Plaines Illinois
I live by here
I live in San Bernardino
Adam the Woo? Haha...always great wen u do that
Lol!