Former McDonald's stands

[lepidopteran]

How many locations do you know of where a McDonald's used to be?  Aka, "Old McDonald"

That is, the structure was clearly a McDonald's once, but is now either vacant or used as something else.  Not counting former shopping center locations, built-into-city-blocks, malls, inside other stores, etc.

Often, the first thing McD's does when closing a store is to remove the signature fluorescent-light highlights from the roof structure, along with taking out the double angle?

Map of locations I've found so far here

Reasons that McD's stores close might include: they built a new stand nearby, changes in traffic patterns make it harder to get to, better proximity to the dinner-hour traffic, etc.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I can only think of two in Minnesota. The first was the one in Centennial Lakes Plaza off of France Ave and 76th St in Edina. That was a late-90s Mac Tonight concept location. My guess is it was too hard to get drive thru customers to come through that location. The other was the location inside the Holiday Center in Duluth which was forced out for building renovations.

[ilpt4u]

https://goo.gl/maps/4QthE38hRd9XtzXAA

Murphysboro, IL, across from the Jackson County Courthouse on Walnut St/IL 149.

[lepidopteran]

Murphysboro, IL, across from the Jackson County Courthouse on Walnut St/IL 149.

That's a particularly good example of before and after, since GSV shows it open not too long ago.  Not only did they remove the steeper roof angle, but it looks like they completely replaced the shingles all around.

[GenExpwy]

Hornell NY:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3321944,-77.6611629,3a,37.5y,112.94h,87.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3IwpNGxztxHbIYangOS25A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[kevinb1994]

The First McDonalds in Jacksonville FL appears to have opened in 1959:

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16332948/6558-Beach-Boulevard-Jacksonville-FL/

There is a newer listing on LoopNet, but it says that it is no longer available (strangely enough):

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6566-6558-Beach-Blvd-Jacksonville-FL/17722378/

[plain]

On US 250 in downtown Richmond

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BbvFseZeJPrM5Nvi8

On US 301 just north of Richmond

https://maps.app.goo.gl/j9rmNBZEZMbdxtvY8

[Throckmorton]

   
The first one that came to mind was a location in south Kansas City that I used to drive by on my way to work.
   
2014   
https://goo.gl/maps/Zx1tFw5LowqvbSt46
   
2019   
https://goo.gl/maps/BwA1b6Fm9pvgCS999
   
Then I remembered the first McDonald's location I ever knew of in Independence, MO. It started out as your classic McDonald's with no dining area and evolved over the years. Now it is a vacant lot.   
   
2011   
https://goo.gl/maps/rcZN2ky3qEyupj9a9
   
2017   
https://goo.gl/maps/EWnR3bqXoAZWn8qU7
   

[NWI_Irish96]

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8470802,-87.9470793,3a,75y,2.63h,89.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shb_HQGSpA0jl5qEJsapneQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Where that pond is used to be a McDonald's. It got town down when they moved their corporate office from the building on the right to downtown Chicago.

[kevinb1994]

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8470802,-87.9470793,3a,75y,2.63h,89.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shb_HQGSpA0jl5qEJsapneQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Where that pond is used to be a McDonald's. It got town down when they moved their corporate office from the building on the right to downtown Chicago.

Shoot, I wish I recognized that a couple years ago when I was in the area for the Aurora-Naperville meet.

[GaryV]

Waters, MI, I-75 exit 270.  What is now "Gobblers of Waters" used to be a McD.  It was closed for a number of years before Gobbler's opened it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8774084,-84.6890843,3a,75y,277.3h,84.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0SQ40gXaVj5Y7f_V5A_FJQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[PHLBOS]

Casualty in Beverly, MA; courtesy of the replacement Beverly-Salem Bridge (MA 1A) construction & opening in 1997.

GSV dated Oct. 2019

[-- US 175 --]

This one in north Dallas on US 75
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ehC6MXnsmZFLewNVA
is now a day care center.

In the northern suburb of Plano, is this
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sL7Tq8gGxEpAT8A69
on the near-west side; the pad site no longer resembles a restaurant.  It's currently a 'combo-meal' of an urgent care clinic and a medical supply store.

[Flint1979]

Waters, MI, I-75 exit 270.  What is now "Gobblers of Waters" used to be a McD.  It was closed for a number of years before Gobbler's opened it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8774084,-84.6890843,3a,75y,277.3h,84.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0SQ40gXaVj5Y7f_V5A_FJQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I remember when Gobbler's had a location in Saginaw. I worked there for a little while before it closed.

[Flint1979]

Almost all the McDonald's locations I can think of in my area are still being used as McDonald's. There is one though that use to be on Bay Rd. in Saginaw that is now called Woody's Twisters (an ice cream joint). You wouldn't be able to tell that it was a McDonald's because it was one of those classic McDonald's that they built back in the 90's or so that were suppose to look like a McDonald's from the 50's.

Of course there's the Chicago Skyway McDonald's but the building is now gone.

[Scott5114]

The former rest area in Wellston OK that had the westbound I-44 onramp routed through the parking lot.

[SEWIGuy]

Reverend Jim's Roadhouse just off US-12/18 and I-39/90 in Monona, WI

https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/BMGVf8PeWgVH3usquDaf0g/l.jpg

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Reverend+Jim's+Roadhouse/@43.04468,-89.268183,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x17af8b64075e07d6!8m2!3d43.04468!4d-89.268183

[corco]

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8470802,-87.9470793,3a,75y,2.63h,89.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shb_HQGSpA0jl5qEJsapneQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Where that pond is used to be a McDonald's. It got town down when they moved their corporate office from the building on the right to downtown Chicago.

RIP McDonald's Plaza/Oak Brook HQ. My Dad worked for McDonald's Corporate in the 90s - I spent a scary part of my childhood either in that specific McDonald's, the one inside the old HQ, and at Lake Ed/Lake Fred

Here in Boise we just have this one to my knowledge, which is now apparently a Crossfit:
https://goo.gl/maps/qr7yEFcp2PesNBtQ8

[renegade]

This McDonalds on N Huron River Dr in Ypsilanti, MI is long-gone:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2558391,-83.6284674,3a,75y,31.26h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sjxoc8WCzkFIWs_OEN6gxXQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Djxoc8WCzkFIWs_OEN6gxXQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D31.261583%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

[mgk920]

Here in Appleton, WI, on N Richmond St (WI 47) a few blocks east of where I grew up on W Glendale Ave, was an original late 1950s 'Golden Arches' McD's that had outdoor service only into the mid-late 1960s.  After a few remodels and expansions, including to a 'classic' multi-pitched roof sit down location, they then built a new restaurant at W Northland Ave (County 'OO'/old US 41) and Richmond St, several blocks to the north, in the late 1970s.  The original location was then sold by the franchisee and over time became couple of other local restaurants, each of whom also remodeled and expanded the building into what it is today, called the 'Golden Basket'.

https://goo.gl/maps/CStQxxLyZEoT5R297



Mike

[GCrites]

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8470802,-87.9470793,3a,75y,2.63h,89.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shb_HQGSpA0jl5qEJsapneQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Where that pond is used to be a McDonald's. It got town down when they moved their corporate office from the building on the right to downtown Chicago.

That has to be one of the first "Eyebrow of Doom" ones to already be torn down.

[gonealookin]

The McDonald's in Tonopah, NV closed maybe 7 or 8 years ago.  It was remodeled into a "Beans & Brews" coffee place.  The address is 1300 South Main Street, Tonopah, NV (that's US 95).

[ilpt4u]

If we are counting ones that have since been demolished, the west side Carbondale, IL McD's has been closed for a few years and was demolished last year. South side of IL 13/Main St just west of the Shell gas station at Emerald Ln

GSV still shows the building standing: https://goo.gl/maps/zNZQSX4225nH9ZAt6

If someone want a picture of the vacant lot since it has been demolished, let me know. I drive by regularly

[nexus73]

Never have seen a closed McD's in Oregon.  However, closed A&W's abound in this state it seems! 

Rick

[webny99]

Here's one in Webster, NY. It was replaced by a brand-new location here, about 1/2 mile to the west.

Usually they just renovate the old one, but they must have decided that it was worth it to move closer to the newer, busier part of Webster... aka the part that has other stores and restaurants and not old dilapidated homes and buildings, lol. A new McD's in the village would have felt very out of place and been removed from basically everything else, so that was a smart move IMO.