Pretty cool story, at least to us. Last week, our very own “Mr. MoCo,” Alex Tsironis, shared a piece of local history that connects Montgomery County’s first McDonald’s to the origin of Ronald McDonald and a family tradition that’s still going strong more than 60 years later in Rockville.
As we’ve noted before, Montgomery County’s first McDonald’s opened on January 6, 1960, during the fast food chain’s earliest years of expansion. The restaurant sat on the 1300 block of Rockville Pike, near where Best Buy is today, and more than six decades later, a McDonald’s still operates on that same site.
Back then, the original Rockville Pike location was a simple hamburger stand, built for quick service and takeout. Indoor seating and the larger dining room model did not become standard until the mid-1970s, when McDonald’s shifted toward a more sit-down experience with room for over 100 customers…