The 1st McDonald's in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Oregon)

USA / Oregon / Maywood Park / Portland, Oregon / Northeast Glisan Street, 12109
 restaurant, McDonald's, drive-in/ drive-through, fast food restaurant
12109 Northeast Glisan Street
Portland, Oregon 97220
(503) 252-8057
www.mcoregon.com/203



The plaque reads:

SITE OF THE 1st McDONALDS IN THE NORTHWEST

On February 26, 1960, George Frederici, as one of nine career US Navy Sailors, opened the first McDonalds in the Northwest at this location. The national store number was and is No. 203.

They obtained their franchise from Ray Kroc and named their corporation Career's Inc.

The new rebuilt McDonalds was opened for business May 28, 1992.

W.C. (Pat) Gilbert, Jr.
Career's Inc.
July 17, 1992
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcdonalds
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Coordinates:   45°31'36"N   122°32'17"W

Comments

  • I ate at this McDonalds site, when I was a kid.(And ever since.) Since I am 60, that was awhile ago. It was the original style building. Golden arches and all. No drive through or inside dining. Those were a long way off yet. All orders were taken at outdoor walk-up windows, then take it back to your car.
  • I remember when this site opened. It was a big treat for us in east county to go to McDonalds. My gramma and I would break up our french fries and feed the sparrows. I remember watching the potatoes being peeled in the peeler and then being turned into french fries. What fun memories!
  • I remember the opening of this McDonald's as well. I grew up about 10 blocks away. Real potatoes peeled and sliced on site and fountain-style milk shake machines. 15 cent hamburgers! Even when I was in high school, you could order a burger, fries and medium coke for 60 cents. It was so worth the risk of leaving a closed campus school to sneak to McDonald's in my friend's car for lunch instead of eating cafeteria food. I remember it was considered a real honor to be a McDonald's employee. The owners only hired students who maintained a high GPA in school --and if your grades slipped, you lost the privilege of working there. Needless to say, times have changed --and the food doesn't have that same appeal for me that it had back then!
  • I remember my friends' granddad peeled potatoes there..By hand......She was SO proud of him. AND it was not even in the city limits of Portland at that time.... AND NOT in Maywood Park( which is 102nd area).
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