# Was there a McDonalds near Broadway and Barry back in the 70's?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 26, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524 "2010-08-26T12:55:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![pipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c2a13f/32.png) [@pipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipper)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524/1 "2010-08-26T12:55:18Z")

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Anyone remember a MickeyD’s in this part of the neighborhood?

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**Author:** ![dzray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@dzray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzray)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524/2 "2010-08-26T13:31:49Z")

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Just south of Belmont across from the Lake Shore Theater. I think they closed back in the early 80’s if I am not mistaken.

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**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524/3 "2010-08-26T14:39:40Z")

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Yep. If I’m not mistaken the building was still there as late as 1987. I remember because it was so odd to see a McDonalds that was all boarded up and sitting empty.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524/4 "2010-08-26T15:20:00Z")

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I don’t know about the seventies, but in the late eighties, there was a Burger King at Broadway and Barry. It was right on the SE corner where the CVS is now.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524/5 "2010-08-28T13:51:53Z")

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Yes there was.

Ray Kroc would take a dump in its bathroom every morning.

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**Author:** ![pipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c2a13f/32.png) [@pipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipper)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-a-mcdonalds-near-broadway-and-barry-back-in-the-70s/551524/6 "2010-08-29T12:09:27Z")

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Thanks folks!

The McDonalds questions came up tangentially in a discussion about the old, family run gyros place that was just south of Briar on Broadway (think it was called ‘gyros on the spit’, but we knew it as ‘George’s’). It was before my time in the neighborhood, but I found it strange that a McDonalds actually closed down- seems once they go up they’re as hard to kill as ivy.