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24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

When the first McDonald's opened up at the end of the 1940s, it revolutionized the way people eat.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 9 months ago in Wow

When the first McDonald's opened up at the end of the 1940s, it revolutionized fast food and the way people eat around the world. 


But the early days of fast food weren't quite the greasy machine it is today. For better and for worse, things were different, and these 24 pics might give you some nostalgia for the way it used to be. 

  • 1

    “My dad next to a KFC menu in China, 1992.”

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 2

    The McDonald brothers in front of the not yet opened first McDonald's, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 3

    Menu, c.1974.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 4

    McDonald’s in the early 50s.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 5

    The First Subway Store, 1965.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 6

    Jenna Fischer while working in a fast food restaurant in the 80s.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 7

    The first "McDonald's" restaurant in San Bernardino ca. 1948.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 8

    My mom, Burger King Employee, circa 1976.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 9

    Bill Clinton in a McDonald's in the 90s after jogging.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 10

    16-year-old Wayne Gretzky has breakfast at McDonald’s on Jan. 15, 1978 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 11

    McDonald’s worker in 1980.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 12

    Burger King In 1998.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 13

    Wendy's Employees 1980.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 14

    Dave Thomas, Wendy's founder, early 1970s.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 15

    Russians wait in line outside the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Moscow, 1991.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 16

    Lines to visit the first McDonald's in Moscow, USSR. January 31, 1990.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 17

    Still from a 1974 Burger King ad.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 18

    Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth rocking out at McDonald’s, 1978.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 19

    McDonald's menu during 1973.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 20

    Jack In The Box drive thru in 1960.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 21

    Woman eating a hot dog at a picnic table outside Casey's Caboose, a fast food restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama, June 1974.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 22

    Peggy O'neill's fast-food restaurant, somewhere in Los Angeles County, 8/6/1958.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 23

    Before McDonald's revolutionized fast food, car hops served food on rollerskates direct to the car. Florida 1967.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

  • 24

    "The Tracker," a fast food restaurant in LA California, 1949. Your order would be slid out to you on tracks.

    24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

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