Peak McDonaldland in Print

A 1976 newspaper supplement from the era of McFun, birthday rooms, and a carousel inside McDonald’s

In 1976, the McDonald’s on La Tijera Boulevard in Los Angeles celebrated its twentieth anniversary with this newspaper insert. The restaurant had opened in 1956, which places it very early in McDonald’s history. Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15, 1955, and McDonald’s says the company was still in its first big wav…