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MUSIC MONDAY: “Written by Wonder, First Sung by Another” - a Stevie Wonder-Composed Playlist (LISTEN)
MUSIC MONDAY: “Written by Wonder, First Sung by Another” – a Stevie Wonder-Composed Playlist (LISTEN)
by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90)
If you are a regular listener of Good Black News’ Music Monday playlists, we’re sure you’ve noticed by now that we’ve got some serious Stevie Wonder fans in the house. In 2020, we even celebrated his 70th birthday with a whole month of fantastic playlists (some links below).
And now that Mr. Wonder’s birthday week again (on this Friday the 13th), we’ve got a new…
Although the McDonalds officially started on April 15th 1955, the McDonalds story started a long time before that in Hollywood, when brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald worked as handymen at motion-picture studios. In 1937 their father opened “The Airdrome”, a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) in Monrovia, California. Hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink orange juice was five cents. In 1940, Maurice and Richard (“Mac” and “Dick”) moved the entire building 40 miles east, to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed “McDonald’s Bar-B-Q”. Here they established a streamlined system with a small menu of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie.
In 1954 Multimixer salesman Ray Kroc visited McDonalds in San Bernadino intending to sell the brothers more mulitmixers. 52 years old Kroc was fascinated by the operation. Talking to the McDonalds brothers he learnt that they were looking for a nationwide franchising agent. Kroc had an epiphany and decided there and then that his future lay in hamburgers.
Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15th with the attention grabbing golden arches, designed by architect Stanley Meston in 1953, making their debut. First day takings were $366.12.
The Neon Arches. Exterior view of Ray Kroc’s first McDonald’s fast food restaurant with its neon arches illuminated at night, Des Plaines, Illinois.1956 A McDonald’s drive-in fast food restaurant, which advertises 15-cent hamburgers.In 1958 McDonalds sold its 100th Millionth hamburger. By now there were 34 restaurants. In 1959 Kroc opened 68 new restaurants, bringing the total to 102. The 100th restaurant to open was in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.
In 1961 McDonalds opened the 'Hamburger University’ in the basement of the Elk Grove Village restaurant in Illinois. Graduates received Bachelor of Hamburgerology degrees.
In 1968, McDonald’s opened its 1,000th restaurant and shortly after, in 1972, surpassed $1 billion in annual sales.
This picture taken in August 1970 shows the 'Speedee’ McDonald’s in Downey, California. It was the third restaurant built by the McDonald brothers Dick and Maurice and has been designated a national landmark. It celebrated its 50-year anniversary on August 18, 2003By 1976, McDonald’s had served 20 billion hamburgers, and sales exceeded $3 billion.
The Jacksons At McDonalds on May 7th, 1973Hugh Carter gets Big Mac cooking lesson from McDonald’s manager Paul Tuma. In 1974 the first Ronald McDonald house was opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1973 Fred Hill, a football player with the Philadelphia Eagles, had the need for such a facility when his child was being treated for leukemia in The Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia. Hill’s dilemma led to the first Ronald McDonald House. Behind the scenes at one of the growing number of McDonald’s Restaurants in March 1979.In 1978 McDonalds opened up its 5000th restaurant in Kanagawa, Japan and in 1979 the Happy Meal made its debut.
Ray Kroc sadly died on January 14th In 1983. By then McDonalds restaurants were in 32 different countries and by the year end had 7778 restaurants.
Not convinced. A woman tries a McDonalds hamburger in King Street, Hammersmith, August 1981.A restaurant in Canada, Jan 31 1986,After experiencing a dip in the early and mid nineties McDonalds made efforts to reinvigorate their menu and increase their healthy options. It wasn’t long before things started looking upwards again
US President Bill Clinton stops for a crispy chicken sandwich, fries and a large diet coke at McDonald’s after he and Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore joined together to address the people of Monroe, Michigan 15 August 2000. Clinton is returning to Washington after addressing the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, 14 August 2000, in a speech during which he praised Gore and bid farewell to the Democratic Party.In 2005 McDonalds celebrated its 50th birthday. In 2011 it opened up restaurants in Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago.
Old McDonald’s restaurant in Downey USA. The oldest operating McDonald’s restaurant in the world is now the drive-up hamburger stand in Downey, California, USA. It was the third McDonald’s restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953.Currently they have restaurants in 199 countries.
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