David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen, 1979

Yeah, lots of smaller places still using them, but seeing an original McDonalds container made me feel incredibly old. Especially after googling it and realizing they have been gone for nearly 24 years.

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OGG said:
Yeah, lots of smaller places still using them, but seeing an original McDonalds container made me feel incredibly old. Especially after googling it and realizing they have been gone for nearly 24 years.

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Wow, 24 years? Thanks for making me feel old.
 
OGG said:
Yeah, lots of smaller places still using them, but seeing an original McDonalds container made me feel incredibly old. Especially after googling it and realizing they have been gone for nearly 24 years.

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you think that's old? i remember when they changed the sign to say "1 billion" burgers sold :facepalm:
 
You'd think that by 1979 they would've been able to afford an upgrade, and eat at Wendy's instead of McDonalds :embarrassed:
 
OGG said:
Yeah, lots of smaller places still using them, but seeing an original McDonalds container made me feel incredibly old. Especially after googling it and realizing they have been gone for nearly 24 years.
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Remember that whole "keeps the hot side hot and the cold side cold" campaign? I think it was shortly after that when they discontinued the Styrofoam.
 
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Remember that whole "keeps the hot side hot and the cold side cold" campaign? I think it was shortly after that when they discontinued the Styrofoam.
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lol, yeah, I remember that. I thought that was the Arch Deluxe, but that was a different failed product from McD. Google tells me the double foam burger was called the McDLT.

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I ran across a very interesting post from a person in St. Louis.
this famous photo of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, from the late '70s, in front of McDonald's

the photo from the book Van Halen: A Visual History 1978 - 1984, was misidentified as being from a McDonald's located in the Greater Detroit area.
The pic actually was taken at a McDonald's in Crestwood MO. How to be certain? OK,

First clue; Look in the background of the original photo it has a sign that says SITE. Site was an Oil company/ gas station located in Missouri.
Alvin J. Siteman was the founder of the company. (you can Google him) . there were no "SITE" gas stations in Detroit of Chicago areas as far as I know but they were in Missouri that is for certain.

Since the world is at our fingertips,
I would like to present an image from Google street view of the oldest McDonald's in the St. Louis area on historic Rt. 66 (Watson Rd.) in Crestwood MO.
The location is still a McDonald's today. Next to this McDonald's is a Shell/Circle K Gas station.
Second clue: The Power poles in the background are EXACTLY the same.

Below is a composite photo of 2 pics, one from the book and one from Google from 2016.

Notice the power/telephone poles, from the background, side-by-side in the pic on the left....they match. I think this is pretty compelling that the pic was taken at the Crestwood, MO McDonald's, and not in Detroit or Des Plains (Chicago).

IN CLOSING Richard Upper (who wants to take credit) did not take this photo - he was not in the car with them. He just acquired the photos and is passing them off as his work. in 1978 (their very first tour) they would not have had a personal photographer touring with them. and if anyone can prove me wrong I'm open to that.
We lost a guitar legend and THAT is the sad part and that is what is important. But to me, trivia is only fun if you get it correct. also, here is the Google map of that location today notice phone pole still there.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5566...7i13312!8i6656

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I don't really care where that picture was taken, but that telephone/electrical pole doesn't look like the one in the modern photo. Also, I could take a similar photo of a local McDonald's with a Shell logo identical to that in the background, and the same lines on the parking area all the way over here in Switzerland. I know couldn't be over the border in France, as their gas stations are all Agip branded. Again, I don't really care about this level of historical minutia, but if you are going to convince me, you are going to need more than one electrical pole and a gas station sign to do it.
 
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I don't really care where that picture was taken, but that telephone/electrical pole doesn't look like the one in the modern photo. Also, I could take a similar photo of a local McDonald's with a Shell logo identical to that in the background, and the same lines on the parking area all the way over here in Switzerland. I know couldn't be over the border in France, as their gas stations are all Agip branded. Again, I don't really care about this level of historical minutia, but if you are going to convince me, you are going to need more than one electrical pole and a gas station sign to do it.
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I was there. I took that photo. It was in Missouri.
 
Tiltsta said:
I don't really care where that picture was taken, but that telephone/electrical pole doesn't look like the one in the modern photo. Also, I could take a similar photo of a local McDonald's with a Shell logo identical to that in the background, and the same lines on the parking area all the way over here in Switzerland. I know couldn't be over the border in France, as their gas stations are all Agip branded. Again, I don't really care about this level of historical minutia, but if you are going to convince me, you are going to need more than one electrical pole and a gas station sign to do it.
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You're taking all the fun out of searching the internet for this pic and posting this bit of trivia vitally important to all the people who live in Crestwood who aren't getting their proper due for EVH having a cheeseburger in the parking lot of a McFranchise back in nineteen dickety dickety something.
 
Crestwood is where the radio station they would have visited to promote their show is broadcast from in St Louis.
 
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