Speedee McDonalds, Downey, California

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Photographs October 3-5, 2004

The Speedee McDonald's
10207 Lakewood Blvd, Downey, California

Opened August 18, 1953, this was the THIRD McDonald's. Ray Kroc, the legendary founder of the McDonald's Corporation, did not begin the chain. Two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald, opened a drive-in in 1937, and by 1948 had created The "McDonald's System" that so impressed Ray Kroc a few years later that he acquired a franchise and went on to buy the McDonald brothers out, creating the McDonald's that we know today.

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