![]() The latter role was born in 1998, when the building went up for sale and Juan Pollo founder and CEO Albert Okura bought it for a little over $400,000. Today, the building serves two functions-as an unofficial McDonald’s Museum (the official museum is in Des Plaines, Illinois) and as corporate offices for another fast food chain, Juan Pollo Chicken. Seventy-five years later, the site of the original McDonald’s still stands in the Southern California sun. Also on the menu: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and, of course, hamburgers. They called their first restaurant “McDonald’s Famous Bar-B-Q.” Customers could get a barbeque beef, ham or pork sandwich with french fries for 35 cents. On May 5, 1940, brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald opened a drive-in barbeque joint at 14th and E streets in San Bernardino, California, along Route 66. ![]() The location of the first McDonald's, now home to the unofficial McDonald's Museum and Juan Pollo Corporate Offices.
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