Our Ask Chris columnist goes looking for the earliest golden arches in the city. Send your questions about L.A. to ...

1940: Dick and Mac McDonald founded the original McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino ... He offered to be one of the restaurant's first franchisees. 1955: Kroc opened the first franchised ...

What is now the biggest fast food chain in the world began as a small hamburger stand in San Bernardino ... He opened the first McDonald's franchise, pictured below, in 1955 in Des Plaines ...

In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first burger stand in San Bernardino, CA. With the help of Ray Kroc, the brothers took their restaurant across the country over the course of the ...

McDonald's is among the most iconic and successful brands worldwide. Ray Kroc, a Multimixer salesman, stumbled upon the original McDonald's brothers' burger restaurant in 1954. Kroc became McDonald's ...