Origin of McDonald's Restaurants

Albert Okura talked about how McDonald’s restaurants got their start in San Bernardino, California. He spoke about Dick and Maurice “Mac” McDonald and their impact on the food service industry in the 1950s. Mr. Okura, a local restaurant owner, runs a museum at the original McDonald’s site.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2016 LCV Cities Tour” in San Bernardino, California, from April 2-8 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Charter and Time Warner cable local affiliates, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close