Always strange to me to see places that were at one point so alive and full of people ,to now be alone and empty. Life and time are so weird and fascinating.
Note of interest - when a McDonald's location closes, they hire a construction company to do what they refer to as a "de-arching." All signs that it was ever a McDonald's are removed. The roof is usually even re-shaped so it doesn't look like iconic McDonald's ones. I worked in an office shared by a company that did this regularly for McDonald's in the 90's.
@@nakano15 I composed a detailed response to this, and it went poof. Google "90's mcdonald's" and you'll see what the roof of this one would have looked like. Most likely a sort of pagoda-like, bi-level shape, with white and/or yellow vertical bars. Also probably red. You can see red paint under the fading white paint on the bottom of the roof in this video. The company I mentioned replaced or covered the original roof to look just like how this one looks now in the video. They also would have removed all exterior signage, including the tall pylon sign. So besides the fading, horizontal yellow and red striping, all iconic architecture has been "de-arched." I believe it is the responsibility of the franchisee to contract this work. It looks like they didn't bother with having the interior stripped for the most part. They probably tore down the menu signage themselves, etc.
Slight looting, no pillaging ..some bathroom and cooking items has been looted but not broken.All Fry baskets( expensive) and the flush unit in urinal along with paper and soap dispensers . Place is super clean.
That's what happens when you seal shit off. Humans can't wreck stuff up for the lulz, or graffiti pee-pees and "I wuz here's" on the walls. Also, nature can't crash through either. That's a huge plus. OOPS. But I can't SAY that. I'll be accused of being a misanthrope and going against human-nature, and that of course is "high treason" XD (Going by experience) .
@@REALMARCHINADER Well, many people very obviously used them while they were in operation. It was still so clean throughout all those years that it stayed clean even while abandoned for 15 years. It's a very rare thing to see in places left behind, especially bathrooms
@@lilymark8817 Probably because working conditions were still pretty decent in 90s - 00s. Most fast food workers get paid so little now that it's hard to even give a shit.
This is surreal. When I was a kid, they tore down and remodeled every single McDonald's in my city... They turned them into M'Cafes and I hated the change. This video is triggering some weird nostalgia I didn't even know I had. Those labels, the furniture, the layout of the building.. All things I recognize despite not having been to this specific McDonald's. Man... The ones here had a giant fish tank, and the other had a giant play place. I'll never forget them
From what I remembered about my locate McDonalds that it once had a playplace, then they remodeled it to resembled a 90's diner (Had 50's remember-ilia) and finally the latest remodeled just change it to a McCafe.
I specifically look for newer looking buildings when choosing a fast food place to eat - if I were to drive up and see a 1990s vibe McDonald's, I'd keep driving. No way I'd want to eat somewhere that hadn't been remodeled in twenty-plus years. No telling how many bugs would be living in the walls.
@@quesadilla14 Pizza Hut was our awesome hangout back when I was in high school (80s). I still remember those pan pizzas they would bring to your table in the pan still sizzling from the oven and they would say "Be careful, it's hot" and serve you your first slice. Now their pizza is not nearly as good as you can tell it's not made fresh anymore and you can get pizza just as good from the frozen case at the grocery store.
As a 90s kid, this hits me hard. I really wish to come across a running MD's one day that still has this same old setup. The fact that this place was still the way it was in 2007 suggests this MD's is in some small town, as all the bigger cities MDs' had already begun shifting to the Neo-Modernist style you see in all of them today.
There is still one more original like OG McDonald’s out there in cali I believe it is one of the original 3! But I’m with ya I miss the 90’s layouts with restaurants
Same! 90’s baby here and I took a screen shot of the old booths because they were so nostalgic! I remember sitting there with my parents and brother like it was yesterday. Times files.
90s kid here… the Mickey D’s nearest to me still has old exterior. Historic Aerials would indicate it was built about 1971. Might be against historic law to change exterior as it’s over 50 years old.
The whole place looks somber and melancholic than just scary. It's that feeling when you walk across abandoned buildings, you start to imagine how alive it was back in the day.
This was cool but time capsule, I feel like when I grew up you could just look at the clothes in pictures and know what decade it was 60's-90's. Now nothing has changed. Everything looks the same from early 2k's to now. No real style or changes each decade so far looks similar to the one before even with music. Sad really, in the past every generation had a decade that they stood out with fashion and music and tech of the day. Now new generations just whine and complain about normal hardships and are confused on which bathroom to use.
Especially when the condition of the place is such that it looks ready to open for business soon yet again, for the most part, with just some basic work moving back in and setting up shop again.
Man, this reminds me of how McDonalds used to look in the 90s and 2000s, all colorful and stylish. Now McDonalds stores just look so drab, boring, sterile and lifeless. If that's what they consider "modernizing", then give me the older styles any day.
I miss the 1970's style when I was a kid.Each Mcdonalds had a specific theme in some of them depending on location or if it was near a national park or other place of interest
Nah Bro old mcdonalds smelled like feet and sweat it was designed to be a playground/childcare. The new ones at least the employees take pride working there and actually clean the restaurant, back then everything was out of control the quality of the food, the cleaning sucked, the smell was bad. Employees quitting everyday due to the chaos in there, dirty bathrooms, etc etc.
@@SegunSMBProd1999 I cleaned out an old storage room that hadn't been cleaned probably in 40 years. I kicked up some dust. It took me 11 years to get rid of the chronic sinusitis and that was after a surgery and 3 years of using manuka honey and xylitol in my sinus rinses. Was told by 2 ent's I would have this for the rest of my life. I'm still working on the skin infections. That was 14 years ago. Always take care of yourself from bacteria, viruses etc
100%. don’t ever eat at steak ‘n shake. this place is spotless compared to the years of uncleaned floors, kitchens and bathrooms we had. I cant even begin to tell you the things I saw in that restaurant
@@adamfenton2433 But I love Steak 'n Shake! Their bathrooms are always filthy, and they say that's indicative of the cleanliness (or lack thereof) in the kitchen, and the one closest to me was indefinitely closed for health code violations, but I still love it.
@@DamienDrake yeah most of the ones here closed down too, they just opened my store back up. but yeah I know it’s hard but trust me it’s not even just all that, most of the employees didn’t wash their hands and reused old equipment and changed dates on old food so they didn’t have to fix it 😂 and we also had a LOT of employees who did cocaine at work. I’m not saying it’s 100% unsafe to eat there but there was a LOT that went on behind the scenes that our customers never saw. I always did my best with what I could do lol 😂 But yeah it’s not the cleanest place to eat for sure
Honestly, the place seems more peaceful than eerie. What was once a stressful environment to work at that a some workers probably hated being at, is now finally at rest and a peaceful, if not somewhat dilapidated place to be in
It's incredible to see something preserved like this. Seeing the mid-80's furniture and the kitchen set is still all there, It's amazing. When they usually close down a restaurant, you'd would think they gutted out the place like they do now. But this one they didn't.
That’s so awesome crazy how you use to come here to eat and now you get to fully see the inside of what is left today which is crazy for it just sitting here for so long especially since your a sophomore in collage!
The new McDonald's are VERY uninviting and I never see much of anyone dining in. All the major fast food restaurants have changed for the worst, not better
Having worked at McDonald's in highschool, I closed my eyes and I could feel the sights, sounds, and smells of this McDonald's location. It was like peering into a time-capsule of a gentler, safer, time.
I can imagine those sweet and golden memories of people enjoying McDonald's food with their families simply talking and the horseplay of laughing children running around the restaurant and then people walking in and out...one by one slowly fades away as the time goes by like once a busy fast food restaurant got quieter in a progress of the years goes by. Now it's dark and eerliy vacant. I can feel the chill breeze in there.
Reminds me what I do in apocalypse style games (or really anywhere that's abandoned in a game) I look around and try to visualize the former hustle and bustle. Coming to a living room of an abandoned home in say fallout new vegas or some random zombie game and thinking about how once there were people in just this lil spot of the world. Laughing. Having fun. Only for the bombs zombies or whatever the heck else to take all that away. I haven't explored many abandoned places real life (mostly cause im scared some drugged out crazy dude is gonna stab me) but if I did. I imagine I'd be able to see it a lot more clearly. In games imagination is all I have those things never happened. But they would have irl.
The joyous laughs of children preceding the cows being lead to the abattoir, trying to catch one last glimpse of their family and friends, one last look at the sun before they meet their demise and have their remains turned to hamburgers is what humanity is all about.
Really? I live near one that's just as large and i often wonder why they need a kitchen that size when all the others have way less. Even the lobby is huge!
@@dancollins8296 I have kid pics of myself at my Burger King birthday party with the little stupid crown hat lol. I used to have my birthday parties at McDonald’s and BK when I was young. I only have the bk pictures though.
@@XenuLordofTheSky good thing they let math majors comment on things to make sure absolutely no rounding up was done. From now on I will make sure I comment strictly exact year to date, heck even seconds. Thank you for your service:)
@@maccamachine That's cute champ. My mother's been dead since 2012, my dad even earlier than that. I've made my life and everything in it. What do you wear to work? A polo with a big yellow M on it?
It is amazing that this McDonald's still exists in this condition. Usually when they close a store, they immediately level it, and return the property to a pre McDonald's state, so that the location can be rebuilt for some other purpose. They generally do not leave their technology behind, because they consider it proprietary, and they do not want their competitors seeing it, or getting a hold of it. I wonder how this location was missed by the bulldozers?
Exactly I was wondering the same thing. Generally within 6 months they level the building. And they most certainly don't leave equipment like that behind. Usually the owner operator will take the equipment and store it in a location to be used at another store for backup or something. Sometimes I'll even take the stainless steel stuff that is not going to be reused and send it off for recycling (of course they get money for it lol) . So I'm really wondering what happened at this location. Did that operator die and McDonald's didn't take it over? Did they default on something? It seems like they took a lot of the POS equipment and some of the other stuff. But definitely why were they leave the grills, the fryers, the shake machine, I saw a hot chocolate machine, a rather nice merchandiser on the front counter. So I'm really intrigued on what happened here
It is weird because McDonald's own the property that the restraunts sit on yet don't own the buildings. I never knew that until I watched the McDonald's movie on Netflix.
@@Jason1Pa McDonald's owns the building also, the franchisee's just lease them. They have to put 10% profit min into maintenance of the building, but any major renovations are paid for by McDonald's (usually a 90/10 split).
There was one back home that sat empty for years and years with a for sale sign in front. I figuree they were asking an astronomical price to keep somone from reopening it as another restaurant since there were 5 or 6 in walking distance. Eventually it was torn down and an auto parts store was built
Amazing how preserved this is. Usually it seems like they gut places when they close them down until it's just a shell, but this still has the tables, bathroom fixtures, counters and machines in it. Unreal.
Don’t know if it would be considered historic unless it’s at least 50 years old. The McD’s closest to me was built around 1971 so it qualifies. It still has original 70s exterior.
What's even sadder is that there was McDonald's up in Stafford springs Connecticut that was built in 1975. Up until mid late 2018 it still had the same turquoise interior and the windows look like English tudor windows. There was even little spaces you could sit in that were so small because people 45 years ago were a lot thinner and you could sit in there it was so cool and those little niches. By the end of 2018 they rehauled at McDonald's and now looks like a well like a box it's really ugly really atrocious
You bring up an interesting point of how people were a lot thinner. It makes me think of how spaces and other areas are having to expand in order to accommodate the extra heft.
A true time capsule. I remember when all McDonalds restaurants looked just like this! Takes me back to when I was a kid. I'm surprised that most of the equipment is still there, and that the restaurant itself hasn't been ransacked by vandals/scrappers yet. I bet you could have that place up and running again within a month.
Almost forgot how alot of the Mcdonalds still had that older looking 90s decor even in the mid 2000s. Totally gave me a flash back of a few of them still looking like this from around 2004 to 2006 after that is when they really started revamping the look or at least again in my area here in houston
I’m thinking this is also like an early 90s McDonald’s. When I worked at McDonald’s long time ago in a very early 1990s, for a brief time, it looks just like that store. It’s in such beautiful shape considering its age.
Everyone talking that this is 90's decor. It's not, this is a mid 80's look, it just lasted well into the 90's. It's like the 70's. Every TV show and movie shows people wearing stupid polyester and driving Gremlins and Pacers. No. In 1976 plenty of cars from the 60's and 50's were still on the road. A 57 Chevy was only 19 years old then. There are still plenty of 2002 cars and trucks on the road today. And is your wardrobe only 6 months old? If you're a guy you have plenty of stuff over 10 years old in your closet. LOL.
Same. We had this design in the Pasadena Walmart on Fairmont McDonald's up until about 2002. Back when the Walmart was located at what is now It'z entertainment.
@@benjaminrodriguez7356 I was referring to like the north side in my case. Theres a mcdonalds on 1960 right off of veterans memorial that looked like this for a very long time, they updated the interior and left the out side the same. Until one day about 4 years ago they completely tore it down and rebuilt it with the new design and look
I had one of those huge corner booth with table from a remodeled village inn in my basement years ago. Any time anybody new saw it they sit in it and slide to the middle
@@bettyschnauber8238First house I lived in had a restaurant booth next to the kitchen. I was 4 years old and I loved it because it felt like we were eating at a restaurant. I was so sad when my dad remodeled the kitchen and got rid of it.
This is creepy but cool! You could almost see the ghosts of the people working behind the counters and in back, the customers sitting in the chairs, and the cars and people and families coming and going through the doors and giving orders at the counter and drive-thru. Sad too but subscribed... Great job! The music is wonderfully appropriate!
Good grief, man! It's only fron the mid-oughts! It's not like the people who worked and ate here are dead and gone! David from accounts receivable worked here part-time in high school. The district manager now runs a lodge in Sedona.
I was the janitor at a few franchisees locations in the 1990s. I believe the pictures were siliconed to the walls. I'd assumed it was for cleanliness purposes.
This brought back nostalgia of when my mom would take me to the former McDonalds in the Smithaven Mall when I was a kid. It was styled exactly like this one is. What an awesome share!
An ancient relic from a bygone era in which McDonald's used to be a fun place to go. McDonald's went from looking like a happy child to looking like a depressed middle-aged adult.
Honestly, I'd take this old design over the way some McDonald's now look inside. One of them I went into literally feels like a prison. All grey and black, with metal fold-out chairs, black ceiling, "decorative" bars on the windows, track lighting. It's a brand new "remodel", transformation from restaurant to prison I call it. You'd get depressed if you ate there, it's horrifying.
This has to be late 80's / early 90's design. I worked at McDonalds for one year in high school in 1991, and that McDonalds looked like this. It might have closed in 2007, but they sure didn't renovate it.
I agree. The mauve pink and the sea foam green were the most popular decorating color combination in the 80’s. The world of today does not even remotely resemble the world back then. As if there has been some kind of major shift. Depressing...
90's for sure, because the one I had growing up in the 80's got rebuilt in 1991 with this layout, which the one I worked for in 1999 also had, but with more pastel colors from the mid-90's remodel. This has a mid-90's look.
@@gecko2738 yes, just by doing it. when they pay per hour less than what a meal cost, there's some perks, like unlimited food while working (they don't allow that at most of them now, it's a capped amount I believe), having your coworkers make you special creations when you are a customer, and taking one of the giveaways every day (as long as we didn't take a huge amount, the shift mgrs could care less, well, except for the packs of cards lol!).
Love that you were able to document it in a relatively pristine state before the idiots & kids get a chance to destroy it; natural decay is the best kind of decay.
Oh I know it got destroyed badly unfortunately I did miss a few things that were left behind which is kinda annoying but I’m glad I was able to bring this video for everyone to see what it looked like before everything happened I’m glad you enjoyed it and this comment means a lot to me!!
@@TriangleofMass funny how it sat untouched for 14 years, then someone got in and made a video to put on RUclips and all of sudden people seek it out and destroy it. Oh well as long as it gets views
Right you think it would have but instead everything is just frozen in time think about it this way tho maybe like locations were being updated but then this one just didn’t make it and they were just about to close it before all the other ones got updated
I remember going to McDonald’s like these in the early 2000s. McDonald’s started a big modernization push shortly after. Got rid of the play areas and put in McCafé
Watching this video, if I had to guess it looks like a late 90’s design. If I remember 80’s early 90’s McDonald’s right, they still had that reddish/brown brick look on the inside.
It may have been built in the 80s but this decor is straight 90s. Late 80s maybe but I doubt that too. I remember Ronald, Grimace and all the rest all over everything in the 80s. All the colors were brown, yellow, and red then too.
@@P0k3D0nd3M4cG I mean, yes the original founders did but the real founder in my book is what made McDonald's great. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have McDonald's today.
@@rudy_dstroys1821 Do you mean Ray Kroc? He died all the way back in the early 80s. So much of what most of us remember nostalgically about McDonalds happened AFTER his death.
Man! All that kitchen equipment is very, very expensive stuff. I'm surprised it's still there and no one has stolen it. It really makes me wonder what happened. The took down the signs, locked it up as is and walked away from it. Wish you had a back story for it.
@@fullthrottlejeffry It's how the drink syrups come to the store. We get 3 or 5 gallon bags of syrup in a box. We just pop off the cap and connect the hose.
Itd be really hard to steal from this location, which is why there’s not a lot of graffiti or vanadlism, the remoteness of the location doesn’t allow for people to take and destroy
McDonald's actually closes several locations a year. Sometimes they build a new location and the owner takes it over and the old store is closed and demolished. Sometimes They are just too close to another one, so closing one would actually push business more towards another one (So instead of having two mediocre profit stores you have one that has better profit, or one that operating at a loss and one that's operating barely above a loss you close one to create a profit)
They tend to close in areas where it's obvious that it's a business graveyard,as in your business won't stay afloat for very long. Use to live in Eugene Oregon,a small town with not much to do and they closed down their Walmart,McDonald's and a few other well known businesses.
Many reasons it can happen since it's a franchise. Where I live we had a Wendy's shut down because I guess the owners weren't giving the corp their cut or something. No warning or anything just, poof gone.
I was 23 in 2006. I remember how the mcds started taking out their Playland's and turning all modern and boring. To me this doesn't seem that long ago but when this is when you were a kid it does seem that way in your twenties looking back. Once in your mid 30s it's surreal how everything looks and seems
Wait another 20 years. Everything you owned as kid will be "antique". I remember McDonald's being remodeled to look like these, an upgrade from what I remember them being when I was little. Now they're almost repulsive-drab and boxy, not at all warm and welcoming.
Very sad that kids now days never got to experience the pleasures of such kid friendly restaurants and a time where struggles weren't so big and you seen more families out. Now days everything is so depressed looking.
@@andrewkaminskas7721 well, I think that the interior McDonald's could be dated around of late '80s/ early' 90s, being that kind of design a resemble of Milano-Memphis style and new art deco. So you're basically both right, although it is more probable that this McDonald's fornitures are from the early '90s
Looking at this location is reaching far into my memories as a child growing up in the nineties. I still remember this layout and the colours. Totally different to what we see as McDonalds today. Some really good memories. I even remembered one year, for the holidat season, they even sold VHS tapes and my mother bought one or two of them. They even had the McDonalds logo stamped on the box on the side.
Definitely remember those vhs tapes. You're probably thinking of the cartoon they made with the creators of Rugrats. "The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald" The entire thing is actually up on youtube!
@@qrowing I bought those tapes for my kids, who are now 30 and 27 years old. I even remember the songs from the episodes they watched them so much. One song had the words “Set up camp” in the lyrics and the other song I remember was something like “This place is so creepy I must admit”. I think the song is called On A Night Like This.
Lost my dad about two years ago, I will always remember and cherish the small memories I had with him - and that meant going to McDonald’s every other weekend when I’d have visitation with him. I remember when they all looked like this, takes me back to when life felt simpler.
@@ladydeanna3775 Yep! Heard that story before also. Seems to happen a lot in Laughlin! Stopped at in n out in Laughlin, they burned the fries. I called corporate and they sent me a 10.00 gift card. Always save your receipts 😊
That's very interesting to see a McDonald's basically frozen in time from 2007. I worked for McDonald's around that time and alot of what I saw in there was exactly the same as the one I worked at. Brought back some memories
Even though I don't actively look for replies, I do think it's interesting to exchange conversation with people who have had similar experiences to myself, even if common and mundane. And I can appreciate the life of the person behind the keyboard as well@@entertainingblackmanvideos7691
I think they used to be much larger back then. My local one from the 80’s was full size with a BASEMENT for parties. McDonald’s used to be a family destination, went there with the whole family so many times as a child. Now it seems like just a drive-through destination…
I find it fascinating when something gets abandoned like this. I used to work for a company that converted an old McDonald's to a loan company. The main lobby where we worked was the playground area. Some parts of the building were still in the McDonald's colors and in the very back was where the freezers were. My employees and I used to joke in the summer time when the air conditioning would come on that you could briefly smell stale french fries 🍟.
Bruh you gotta understand... It was all cool and intriguing until I realized they even left the equipment😳 I'm curious to know what happened mcd wise that the restaurant just gets LEFT like that... The bathrooms were almost pristine.... The ABS in the back was still there AND the ice machine looked brand new🤯 Just crazy and GREAT find bro 💪
@@Dame48Buick That's cool. But usually even if they open another location, they clean and take out the old equipment. Most operators will save the friars or the grills to use as replacements if they're still operational, same thing with the shake machine. And the other stuff like the stainless steel prep tables are usually sold off for scrap. So I'm really wondering why everything was left behind too. I mean shake machines grills and fryers are very expensive. Looking at that shake machine grill and fryer set those could still be used today (if they were still operating lol).
I love to wonder about the history of these places when watching these types of videos. Imagining the people that ate there before it was closed and where they might be now. I'll never know but it's still neat to think about.
I'm amazed they left all of the grills, fryers, and refrigerators behind. Most of it probably isn't salvageable now, but at the time it would have been worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Oh you'd be surprised with what you can do with old kitchen equipment. One time I bought an old BBQ off ebay and turned it into a cooker that I can use as a se,x toy while I waited for my food to cook.
It’s so weird because the blue and pink color scheme they had going reminds me more of a Taco Bell than a McDonalds. Is that how it really looked in the 80s?
It was actually green and pink. My cousins used to have wall paper like that but the design were lines in a hand fan shape. You just don't see those colors together anymore.
This McDonalds is the EXACT same as the one near me when I was growing up. Same layout, and the same 90's colors that are the teal and magenta colors on the walls and chairs. It was like this up until last year when they finally remodeled it to match their new brown and dull franchises that are meant to be less fun and more mature and boring for some reason.
@@TriangleofMass Hey if you get some time I think I seen it on Netflix but a kid does a Documentary on McDonalds shake machine No not playing . Its nuts to find out why there machines seem to be out of order and it has zero to do with not cleaning them properly on a daily basis check it out like everything it's all bout the money .
It looks like that ice cream machine is the older model they used before the new ones that break all the time. The older ones were much more reliable and could be repaired or reset very easily by an employee or any refrigeration tech. The new ones shut down very easily and have to be repaired by a technician from the manufacturer.
We still have a McDonald's that hasn't been remodeled (yet) near Middletown, PA. There was another one in Harrisburg that still looked old-school until last year. :(
I would like to know the story behind this. It looks like one night they just closed the door and left and no one ever went back. Of course all the equipment is 15 years old so, I'm guessing that McDonalds doesn't care anything about it. It does look like someone came in there and cleaned some of the bathroom recently....However I'm fairly sure there is no water.
Yeah I'm wondering what happened also. Generally when you close a McDonald's you take the equipment out, especially like the grills the fryers the shake machine because you can usually use those at another location. Those fryers he showed are still good and current, they're good until their pots burn out basically. Even like the stainless stuff that can't be used at another location (like the prep tables and stuff) are usually sold off for scrap. So it makes me wonder what really happened at this location. Did the owner suddenly die and McDonald's didn't reclaim it. Was there some kind of financial default or something? Generally 6 months after a store closes that they're not going to use again they just demolish the building
A new McDonald’s was built about a half mile east of this one. This old McDonald’s sits in front of a mostly abandoned shopping center that used to have a Kroger that moved to a new location and an abandoned Kmart.
Small town where the have 2 main "strips". This one used to be in the parking lot with Walmart. When they moved the Walmart to the other strip to expand its size they moved the McDonald's with it. Small town but only McDonald's and Walmart in the entire county so both businesses are very busy. The building will remain abandoned and unused because they rezoned the area of the old McDonald's.
Specifically where the counter and that corner with the diagonal table and the smaller one… that is identical to how the mcdonald’s in my hometown used to look. (2:55 in video) My eyes welled up with tears immediately. Being a kid and going there every saturday with my family. That was our favorite seat. I can’t help but let the tears flow remembering those simpler times. And the Hi-C. Nothing will ever compare!
Pretty damn nuts seeing some of that 2007 promotional material still lying around after fifteen years or so. Calling it a time capsule really is accurate.
Looking at the lobby brings me back to my childhood and early teen years. I recently worked at a McDonald's and it is crazy how much of the equipment looks exactly the same and how much has changed.
@@GreenAppelPie 🤦🏻♀️ obviously. You missed he point. People have a thing for nostalgia and having a 1980s style McDonald’s opened in 2021 would be awesome. Not the same as 1980s McDonald’s opened in the 1980s.
don't know if that's a good idea, knowing them they'd either renovate this place and turn it into yet another depressing looking mcdonalds, or they'd tear it down and build a new one in it's place
This was the McDonald's I went to as a kid in Johnston RI! Thanks for bringing me on a trip down memory lane, it used to have a play place outside as well.
I remember the McDonald's in Green cove springs Florida look just like this, took our kids to it in the '90s, it's a shame things can't be like they we're back then. Seems like it was a much simpler time.
There's just something about really old school restaurant décor. I kind of miss it because nowadays they've been remodeling and updating various styles to look more modern.
@@royfontaine5526 I feel like companies "update" decor as a way to attract a new generation of customers. There's really nothing wrong with pale color schemes
Thanks for sharing this! Abandoned buildings fascinate me. There was an abandoned Firestone in my childhood hometown, but I never went inside. I did see it a couple of times when it was dark enough that other places were turning their lights on. It was eerie that it was the only building that remained dark.
I'm shocked it's just some plywood that has protected all the incredibly expensive equipment inside of that place from theft for well over a decade. Seriously, makes no sense. Or... unless this must be an extraordinarily chill and safe place to live!
Always strange to me to see places that were at one point so alive and full of people ,to now be alone and empty. Life and time are so weird and fascinating.
The abandoned malls are even creepier
Yes.malls are perfect example
I agree. This is very cool to watch and look at.
Also the fact that these place were built in the 1970s and no longer in use.
Think of all the time that has past and everything you have done and inside this place has just been dark for 20 years
There's gotta be a cheeseburger somewhere in there that still looks edible.
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theyve never looked edible even before being abandoned
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Nuggets probably still good.
Apparently a well preserved order of fries made 63 yrs ago, were found behind a house wall during renovations.
Note of interest - when a McDonald's location closes, they hire a construction company to do what they refer to as a "de-arching." All signs that it was ever a McDonald's are removed. The roof is usually even re-shaped so it doesn't look like iconic McDonald's ones. I worked in an office shared by a company that did this regularly for McDonald's in the 90's.
This is important, and more people should know about it.
Why didn't they do that on this one, then?
@@nakano15 I composed a detailed response to this, and it went poof.
Google "90's mcdonald's" and you'll see what the roof of this one would have looked like. Most likely a sort of pagoda-like, bi-level shape, with white and/or yellow vertical bars. Also probably red. You can see red paint under the fading white paint on the bottom of the roof in this video. The company I mentioned replaced or covered the original roof to look just like how this one looks now in the video. They also would have removed all exterior signage, including the tall pylon sign. So besides the fading, horizontal yellow and red striping, all iconic architecture has been "de-arched."
I believe it is the responsibility of the franchisee to contract this work. It looks like they didn't bother with having the interior stripped for the most part. They probably tore down the menu signage themselves, etc.
Or they couldn't get past the boarded doors, haha.
Well they all still look exactly like a McDonald’s so they lost on that one 💀💀
The fact that it hasn't been vandalized is incredible
Slight looting, no pillaging ..some bathroom and cooking items has been looted but not broken.All Fry baskets( expensive) and the flush unit in urinal along with paper and soap dispensers . Place is super clean.
Ok but loot what though?
It's not like they left cash registers full of money or several boxes of frozen burger patties left in the walk-in freezer
@@Off-with-a-bang the appliances and whats left of equipment at this point are outdated too
That's what happens when you seal shit off. Humans can't wreck stuff up for the lulz, or graffiti pee-pees and "I wuz here's" on the walls. Also, nature can't crash through either. That's a huge plus. OOPS. But I can't SAY that. I'll be accused of being a misanthrope and going against human-nature, and that of course is "high treason" XD
(Going by experience) .
Scrap metal
For an abandoned McD that's stuck in the 90's and closed in 2007,
it has a cleaner bathroom than some McD's still running today.
Well duh no one's using em anymore.
@@REALMARCHINADER Well, many people very obviously used them while they were in operation. It was still so clean throughout all those years that it stayed clean even while abandoned for 15 years. It's a very rare thing to see in places left behind, especially bathrooms
@@lilymark8817 Probably because working conditions were still pretty decent in 90s - 00s. Most fast food workers get paid so little now that it's hard to even give a shit.
@@REALMARCHINADER You're kidding right?
@@outlawent9664 Lowering the bar. It' s only decent when compared to today.
This is surreal. When I was a kid, they tore down and remodeled every single McDonald's in my city... They turned them into M'Cafes and I hated the change. This video is triggering some weird nostalgia I didn't even know I had. Those labels, the furniture, the layout of the building.. All things I recognize despite not having been to this specific McDonald's. Man...
The ones here had a giant fish tank, and the other had a giant play place. I'll never forget them
People will be obsessed with the current design in 30 years.
From what I remembered about my locate McDonalds that it once had a playplace, then they remodeled it to resembled a 90's diner (Had 50's remember-ilia) and finally the latest remodeled just change it to a McCafe.
We need to bring the style of these old restaurants back. Modern ones are so prison-cell feeling and drab.
More inviting to sit down unlike now
I specifically look for newer looking buildings when choosing a fast food place to eat - if I were to drive up and see a 1990s vibe McDonald's, I'd keep driving. No way I'd want to eat somewhere that hadn't been remodeled in twenty-plus years. No telling how many bugs would be living in the walls.
Exactly! They look more like coffee shops!
@@quesadilla14 Pizza Hut was our awesome hangout back when I was in high school (80s). I still remember those pan pizzas they would bring to your table in the pan still sizzling from the oven and they would say "Be careful, it's hot" and serve you your first slice. Now their pizza is not nearly as good as you can tell it's not made fresh anymore and you can get pizza just as good from the frozen case at the grocery store.
I hate the New McDonald's
I love the fact that he didn’t enter the women’s bathroom even though the building has been abandoned for 15 years 😂
I was thinking the same thing!
becauze its women only doh
Professionals have standards
as someone that saw the inside of a womans bathroom despite being male, they're the same its just they dont have urinals and thats the only difference
@@indeepjable I mean yeah we don’t think there’s some grand world-shattering conspiracy in every women’s bathroom
As a 90s kid, this hits me hard. I really wish to come across a running MD's one day that still has this same old setup. The fact that this place was still the way it was in 2007 suggests this MD's is in some small town, as all the bigger cities MDs' had already begun shifting to the Neo-Modernist style you see in all of them today.
There is still one more original like OG McDonald’s out there in cali I believe it is one of the original 3! But I’m with ya I miss the 90’s layouts with restaurants
Same! 90’s baby here and I took a screen shot of the old booths because they were so nostalgic! I remember sitting there with my parents and brother like it was yesterday. Times files.
90s kid here… the Mickey D’s nearest to me still has old exterior. Historic Aerials would indicate it was built about 1971. Might be against historic law to change exterior as it’s over 50 years old.
Not sure where you’re at but there is one in Kansas that’s still retro like this.
There is one in Alaska that is like that still.
The whole place looks somber and melancholic than just scary. It's that feeling when you walk across abandoned buildings, you start to imagine how alive it was back in the day.
I got the exact feeling on the beginning of the video, like imagine people that worked there and they see this video, that would be interesting
just remember that every abandoned building you see was at one point packed with people.
This was cool but time capsule, I feel like when I grew up you could just look at the clothes in pictures and know what decade it was 60's-90's. Now nothing has changed. Everything looks the same from early 2k's to now. No real style or changes each decade so far looks similar to the one before even with music. Sad really, in the past every generation had a decade that they stood out with fashion and music and tech of the day. Now new generations just whine and complain about normal hardships and are confused on which bathroom to use.
Or exploring and quickly realizing why it closed down 😳
Especially when the condition of the place is such that it looks ready to open for business soon yet again, for the most part, with just some basic work moving back in and setting up shop again.
Man, this reminds me of how McDonalds used to look in the 90s and 2000s, all colorful and stylish. Now McDonalds stores just look so drab, boring, sterile and lifeless. If that's what they consider "modernizing", then give me the older styles any day.
I totally agree, everything has to be this dull black wall or dark wood color. Though pink and green is a color you just don't see together anymore.
Then even had N64 back in late 90's and kids play area
I miss the 1970's style when I was a kid.Each Mcdonalds had a specific theme in some of them depending on location or if it was near a national park or other place of interest
@@MrJacMac1968 and the food was better!!!!
Nah Bro old mcdonalds smelled like feet and sweat it was designed to be a playground/childcare. The new ones at least the employees take pride working there and actually clean the restaurant, back then everything was out of control the quality of the food, the cleaning sucked, the smell was bad. Employees quitting everyday due to the chaos in there, dirty bathrooms, etc etc.
Might need to start wearing respirators in these places
Yes he should some of these place he goes to has dust that can give him different illnesses or diseases .
@@SegunSMBProd1999 I cleaned out an old storage room that hadn't been cleaned probably in 40 years. I kicked up some dust. It took me 11 years to get rid of the chronic sinusitis and that was after a surgery and 3 years of using manuka honey and xylitol in my sinus rinses. Was told by 2 ent's I would have this for the rest of my life. I'm still working on the skin infections. That was 14 years ago. Always take care of yourself from bacteria, viruses etc
Bro this needs to be pinned
Pretty sure that’s standard for professionals investigating stuff like this. Insane mold risks going on
In Union and surrounding areas Ive been in abandoned shit with nun
Seriously, how many people watching had the thought, "I've been in an operating restaurant that's DIRTIER than this abandoned one".
The bathroom looks amazing compared to an operational outlet. I refuse to call McDonald's a restaurant. Hi from Australia, where it is Macca's.
100%. don’t ever eat at steak ‘n shake. this place is spotless compared to the years of uncleaned floors, kitchens and bathrooms we had. I cant even begin to tell you the things I saw in that restaurant
I just like the fact that you used dirtier "than" vs dirtier "then" lol 😂 respect my guy ✊🏾
@@adamfenton2433 But I love Steak 'n Shake! Their bathrooms are always filthy, and they say that's indicative of the cleanliness (or lack thereof) in the kitchen, and the one closest to me was indefinitely closed for health code violations, but I still love it.
@@DamienDrake yeah most of the ones here closed down too, they just
opened my store back up. but yeah I know it’s hard but trust me it’s not even just all that, most of the employees didn’t wash their hands and reused old equipment and changed dates on old food so they didn’t have to fix it 😂 and we also had a LOT of employees who did cocaine at work. I’m not saying it’s 100% unsafe to eat there but there was a LOT that went on behind the scenes that our customers never saw. I always did my best with what I could do lol 😂 But yeah it’s not the cleanest place to eat for sure
What I’m sure what we’re all wondering is...
Does the ice cream machine work?
most likely not😂
That machine is so old, they don't even make parts for it anymore.
Nice
Of course it does. They all do smh 😅
Well it needs power and it's obvious the city cut the power in the building
Honestly, the place seems more peaceful than eerie. What was once a stressful environment to work at that a some workers probably hated being at, is now finally at rest and a peaceful, if not somewhat dilapidated place to be in
The whole place has like no saturation which it makes it shady asf
I also got a peaceful vibe. Glad I'm not the only one.
It's incredible to see something preserved like this. Seeing the mid-80's furniture and the kitchen set is still all there, It's amazing. When they usually close down a restaurant, you'd would think they gutted out the place like they do now. But this one they didn't.
That makes me think something tragic happened there.
It's probably owned by a franchisee who forgot to take everything out or had no idea what to do with all of it and didn't want to scrap any of it.
And some of that equipment is not cheap
This is actually 2000s decor!
@@anzatentis7663 its just leftover decor from the late 80s but the powerade logo gives it away that it closed early 2000s lol
I remember my mom taking me to this exact McDonald's when I'd get out of kindergarten. Now I'm a sophomore in college, so cool to see this
That’s so awesome crazy how you use to come here to eat and now you get to fully see the inside of what is left today which is crazy for it just sitting here for so long especially since your a sophomore in collage!
Where is the McDonald's located
@@cynthialandis4263 Adak Island, Alaska
Where's it located?
@WHALE SHARK he can tell us the statey doesn't have to give the city or down
The new McDonald's are VERY uninviting and I never see much of anyone dining in. All the major fast food restaurants have changed for the worst, not better
Having worked at McDonald's in highschool, I closed my eyes and I could feel the sights, sounds, and smells of this McDonald's location. It was like peering into a time-capsule of a gentler, safer, time.
How do u imagine tht with closed eyes if u have to look at the video
yip....and then the Democrats have slowly destroyed all of it.
That's why Russian love McDonald's.
A gentler, safer time indeed :)
I worked at McDonald's in high school too (back in the mid-90s). This video does bring back a lot of memories.
I can imagine those sweet and golden memories of people enjoying McDonald's food with their families simply talking and the horseplay of laughing children running around the restaurant and then people walking in and out...one by one slowly fades away as the time goes by like once a busy fast food restaurant got quieter in a progress of the years goes by. Now it's dark and eerliy vacant. I can feel the chill breeze in there.
Man, well said 😔
Reminds me what I do in apocalypse style games (or really anywhere that's abandoned in a game) I look around and try to visualize the former hustle and bustle. Coming to a living room of an abandoned home in say fallout new vegas or some random zombie game and thinking about how once there were people in just this lil spot of the world. Laughing. Having fun. Only for the bombs zombies or whatever the heck else to take all that away.
I haven't explored many abandoned places real life (mostly cause im scared some drugged out crazy dude is gonna stab me) but if I did. I imagine I'd be able to see it a lot more clearly. In games imagination is all I have those things never happened. But they would have irl.
Mentally they might have enjoyed it, but physically their bodies sure didn't.
The joyous laughs of children preceding the cows being lead to the abattoir, trying to catch one last glimpse of their family and friends, one last look at the sun before they meet their demise and have their remains turned to hamburgers is what humanity is all about.
“Gly”: It doesn’t matter whether a McDonald’s is 20 years old, 50 years old or 100 years old… you never find paper towels in the bathroom.
I haven't seen a McD's that large in decades.
Amazing how much equipment was abandoned.
Really? I live near one that's just as large and i often wonder why they need a kitchen that size when all the others have way less. Even the lobby is huge!
Same. The one in my town is even bigger and it’s a small town
@@sammyk702 I guess they were planning on lots of business. The one I worked at in Alexandria actually had a basement for the break room and storage.
@@xAtomXClubx Is it the only one in town?
Really? I see a bunch of large McDonald's everywhere
Brings back memories of kids laughing, people talking, families out for a Saturday night dinner kinda sad things ain't the same anymore these days
The 80's and 90's were the happiest times. Seeing places like this makes me want to go back.
@@coreyouellette2791 80s and 90s were magic...lots of birthday parties at McDonald's and good times
@@dancollins8296 I have kid pics of myself at my Burger King birthday party with the little stupid crown hat lol. I used to have my birthday parties at McDonald’s and BK when I was young. I only have the bk pictures though.
@@ladydeanna3775 I believe I have some pics somewhere from bk and McDonald's. And yes I remember the cardboard bk crown....it was a staple at parties
Memories of poisoning yourself?
The hot chocolate. “Always fresh. Always here.” How ominous. It kept its promise, even after being abandoned for 20 plus years.
2007 was not twenty years ago.
@@XenuLordofTheSky good thing they let math majors comment on things to make sure absolutely no rounding up was done. From now on I will make sure I comment strictly exact year to date, heck even seconds. Thank you for your service:)
15 years* Got called out by what I can only imagine to be an extreme genius math major scientist. Wouldn’t want to upset them again.
As a 20 year veteran of fast food this brought back memories of the original design. Kudos
Why in God's name would you spend 20 years of your life in fast food? Are you a franchise owner?
@cxxx valee Which is why I followed up with the question "are you a franchise owner". Stay easy social justice warriors
@@davidrobinson2323 keep using mommy’s money kid but some people actually have to work hard in life🤣
@@maccamachine That's cute champ. My mother's been dead since 2012, my dad even earlier than that. I've made my life and everything in it. What do you wear to work? A polo with a big yellow M on it?
@@davidrobinson2323 no it's just a t shirt that says "Think outside of the bun".
It is amazing that this McDonald's still exists in this condition. Usually when they close a store, they immediately level it, and return the property to a pre McDonald's state, so that the location can be rebuilt for some other purpose. They generally do not leave their technology behind, because they consider it proprietary, and they do not want their competitors seeing it, or getting a hold of it. I wonder how this location was missed by the bulldozers?
Exactly I was wondering the same thing. Generally within 6 months they level the building. And they most certainly don't leave equipment like that behind. Usually the owner operator will take the equipment and store it in a location to be used at another store for backup or something. Sometimes I'll even take the stainless steel stuff that is not going to be reused and send it off for recycling (of course they get money for it lol) . So I'm really wondering what happened at this location. Did that operator die and McDonald's didn't take it over? Did they default on something? It seems like they took a lot of the POS equipment and some of the other stuff. But definitely why were they leave the grills, the fryers, the shake machine, I saw a hot chocolate machine, a rather nice merchandiser on the front counter. So I'm really intrigued on what happened here
It is weird because McDonald's own the property that the restraunts sit on yet don't own the buildings. I never knew that until I watched the McDonald's movie on Netflix.
@@Jason1Pa McDonald's owns the building also, the franchisee's just lease them. They have to put 10% profit min into maintenance of the building, but any major renovations are paid for by McDonald's (usually a 90/10 split).
@@evilmejosh Ah ok
There was one back home that sat empty for years and years with a for sale sign in front. I figuree they were asking an astronomical price to keep somone from reopening it as another restaurant since there were 5 or 6 in walking distance. Eventually it was torn down and an auto parts store was built
Amazing how preserved this is. Usually it seems like they gut places when they close them down until it's just a shell, but this still has the tables, bathroom fixtures, counters and machines in it. Unreal.
This is in surprisingly good shape. I was expecting graffiti and broken tables, but this is like a historical landmark that remains untouched
0:20 Graffiti
Don’t know if it would be considered historic unless it’s at least 50 years old. The McD’s closest to me was built around 1971 so it qualifies. It still has original 70s exterior.
What's even sadder is that there was McDonald's up in Stafford springs Connecticut that was built in 1975. Up until mid late 2018 it still had the same turquoise interior and the windows look like English tudor windows. There was even little spaces you could sit in that were so small because people 45 years ago were a lot thinner and you could sit in there it was so cool and those little niches. By the end of 2018 they rehauled at McDonald's and now looks like a well like a box it's really ugly really atrocious
it seems that MCD is dying on the inside
You bring up an interesting point of how people were a lot thinner. It makes me think of how spaces and other areas are having to expand in order to accommodate the extra heft.
This makes me sad
Yooo I know where that is! I live in Stafford that’s crazy!
But isn't that a Taco Bell interior? They even have the swivel chairs.
Wow this brought me back to childhood in the mid/late 90s.. it's scary how preserved it is! Awesome! Thank you!
A true time capsule. I remember when all McDonalds restaurants looked just like this! Takes me back to when I was a kid.
I'm surprised that most of the equipment is still there, and that the restaurant itself hasn't been ransacked by vandals/scrappers yet. I bet you could have that place up and running again within a month.
the asbestos says no
I bet all the scrappers don't know that all that equipment is still there. They would find a way in to get all of that scrap if they knew
It would take more than a month I think but the bones are there.
@Egmont that's what I was thinking, but it's prob just a good joke
Almost forgot how alot of the Mcdonalds still had that older looking 90s decor even in the mid 2000s. Totally gave me a flash back of a few of them still looking like this from around 2004 to 2006 after that is when they really started revamping the look or at least again in my area here in houston
I was thinking the same thing. What part(s) of Houston are you referring to.
I’m thinking this is also like an early 90s McDonald’s. When I worked at McDonald’s long time ago in a very early 1990s, for a brief time, it looks just like that store. It’s in such beautiful shape considering its age.
Everyone talking that this is 90's decor. It's not, this is a mid 80's look, it just lasted well into the 90's.
It's like the 70's. Every TV show and movie shows people wearing stupid polyester and driving Gremlins and Pacers. No. In 1976 plenty of cars from the 60's and 50's were still on the road. A 57 Chevy was only 19 years old then. There are still plenty of 2002 cars and trucks on the road today. And is your wardrobe only 6 months old? If you're a guy you have plenty of stuff over 10 years old in your closet. LOL.
Same. We had this design in the Pasadena Walmart on Fairmont McDonald's up until about 2002. Back when the Walmart was located at what is now It'z entertainment.
@@benjaminrodriguez7356 I was referring to like the north side in my case. Theres a mcdonalds on 1960 right off of veterans memorial that looked like this for a very long time, they updated the interior and left the out side the same. Until one day about 4 years ago they completely tore it down and rebuilt it with the new design and look
Someone should turn this into their house. Imagine living in a house that was an abandoned McDonalds once.
I had one of those huge corner booth with table from a remodeled village inn in my basement years ago. Any time anybody new saw it they sit in it and slide to the middle
@@bettyschnauber8238First house I lived in had a restaurant booth next to the kitchen. I was 4 years old and I loved it because it felt like we were eating at a restaurant. I was so sad when my dad remodeled the kitchen and got rid of it.
This is creepy but cool! You could almost see the ghosts of the people working behind the counters and in back, the customers sitting in the chairs, and the cars and people and families coming and going through the doors and giving orders at the counter and drive-thru. Sad too but subscribed... Great job! The music is wonderfully appropriate!
Good grief, man! It's only fron the mid-oughts! It's not like the people who worked and ate here are dead and gone! David from accounts receivable worked here part-time in high school. The district manager now runs a lodge in Sedona.
@@lapislazarus8899 they mean you could imagine the people working and the customers coming in to eat…..
They were the ghosts from all the people that died from eating that crap!
@@locker1589 The guy that created the big Mac burger he lived to be 98 years old. He lived that long because he didn't eat his own food L.O.L..
@@locker1589 haha
I can’t believe they even left the pictures hanging on the wall. So strange and cool. I’d love to explore this place
I was the janitor at a few franchisees locations in the 1990s. I believe the pictures were siliconed to the walls. I'd assumed it was for cleanliness purposes.
@@user_16309 I’d say you’re right
@@user_16309 cleanliness and anti-theft I’d imagine.
Bring a taser with you
This brought back nostalgia of when my mom would take me to the former McDonalds in the Smithaven Mall when I was a kid. It was styled exactly like this one is. What an awesome share!
this brings me a sense of strong comfort, like being stuck in a time locked liminal space you can't escape, I'd almost want to stay forever.
As a current McDonalds worker I can confirm that little has change with the machines
So true the washup table looks very similar and the fryers plus the grills look almost the same as the new ones today. (creepy)
Your grammar shows why you are where you are.
@@myxomatosis3744 I'm a 17 year old there aren't too many choices for me. Also what's wrong with my grammer?
@@sparknight5948 I know it's so werid, are you a Mcdonalds worker too?
@@blackfire6243 Yep I am a current crew member with a store that opened less than a year ago.
imagine an edit of this video with the sound of people laughing and talking in the background, kids playing, employees calling out orders and whatnot.
An ancient relic from a bygone era in which McDonald's used to be a fun place to go. McDonald's went from looking like a happy child to looking like a depressed middle-aged adult.
Thank Apple. When they started rolling out sleek all-white computers and peripherals, everything under the sun switched to muted colors to match.
@@BizzarreProductions At least it still exists. Unlike Toys "R" Us and Blockbuster.
@@nerfreak01 Toys R Us....
I remember getting a Beyblade from there.
@@BizzarreProductions yes but McDonald's changed more
Honestly, I'd take this old design over the way some McDonald's now look inside. One of them I went into literally feels like a prison. All grey and black, with metal fold-out chairs, black ceiling, "decorative" bars on the windows, track lighting. It's a brand new "remodel", transformation from restaurant to prison I call it. You'd get depressed if you ate there, it's horrifying.
This video triggers my anxiety so much, the emptiness, loneliness, the feeling that somebody or something else is still there.
This has to be late 80's / early 90's design. I worked at McDonalds for one year in high school in 1991, and that McDonalds looked like this. It might have closed in 2007, but they sure didn't renovate it.
When you worked there were you allowed to take home some of the happy meal toys?
I agree. The mauve pink and the sea foam green were the most popular decorating color combination in the 80’s. The world of today does not even remotely resemble the world back then. As if there has been some kind of major shift. Depressing...
90's for sure, because the one I had growing up in the 80's got rebuilt in 1991 with this layout, which the one I worked for in 1999 also had, but with more pastel colors from the mid-90's remodel. This has a mid-90's look.
I was thinking the same thing. I’m 35, and no way was this a 2000s design.
@@gecko2738 yes, just by doing it. when they pay per hour less than what a meal cost, there's some perks, like unlimited food while working (they don't allow that at most of them now, it's a capped amount I believe), having your coworkers make you special creations when you are a customer, and taking one of the giveaways every day (as long as we didn't take a huge amount, the shift mgrs could care less, well, except for the packs of cards lol!).
Love that you were able to document it in a relatively pristine state before the idiots & kids get a chance to destroy it; natural decay is the best kind of decay.
Oh I know it got destroyed badly unfortunately I did miss a few things that were left behind which is kinda annoying but I’m glad I was able to bring this video for everyone to see what it looked like before everything happened I’m glad you enjoyed it and this comment means a lot to me!!
@@TriangleofMass funny how it sat untouched for 14 years, then someone got in and made a video to put on RUclips and all of sudden people seek it out and destroy it. Oh well as long as it gets views
@@dosmundos3830 I don’t suggest people to destroy things also the building has been since repurposed so?
@@TriangleofMass How did you get inside? To sit for 14 years undisturbed it must have been secured, until you got there lol
@@TriangleofMass Please tell me it was an unavoidable hurricane and not vandals that destroyed it : (
I'll admit I'm a boomer for saying this but I miss old McDonald's architecture and interior design. Modern ones just don't feel the same.
I like that you actually give a real tour and don't add "ghosts" or " purposely try and be scary"
Wait… what was that?, I appreciate you’re comment and I do not purposely try and have jump scares and so on
@@TriangleofMass I appreciate the genuine tour rather than a skit
This place should be a museum. Time capsule. Wow, brings back memories. I would love to purchase this place
*be
What would be do with it? McDonald's sells franchises. Go for it!
Bullseye, ain't that the truth!
@@conniewojahn6445 only problem, McDonald's forces old locations to be torn down to be turned into the crappy modern-day style...
I'd love to buy it too
1:01 it looks like a straight up backrooms scene
Mcdonals
It's weird that it closed in 2007 but they never remodeled during that time. I guess they liked that '80s look as well.
Right you think it would have but instead everything is just frozen in time think about it this way tho maybe like locations were being updated but then this one just didn’t make it and they were just about to close it before all the other ones got updated
I remember going to McDonald’s like these in the early 2000s. McDonald’s started a big modernization push shortly after. Got rid of the play areas and put in McCafé
Watching this video, if I had to guess it looks like a late 90’s design. If I remember 80’s early 90’s McDonald’s right, they still had that reddish/brown brick look on the inside.
Lots of McDonald’s were getting remodeled in 2011,2012 and again in 2016/2017 I hate the new look I miss the red mansard roof
It may have been built in the 80s but this decor is straight 90s. Late 80s maybe but I doubt that too. I remember Ronald, Grimace and all the rest all over everything in the 80s. All the colors were brown, yellow, and red then too.
When the founder of McDonald's passed away, so did the spirit of the franchise. That man was really a visionary.
You realize the founders sold it pretty early on, right?
@@P0k3D0nd3M4cG I mean, yes the original founders did but the real founder in my book is what made McDonald's great. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have McDonald's today.
@@rudy_dstroys1821 Do you mean Ray Kroc? He died all the way back in the early 80s. So much of what most of us remember nostalgically about McDonalds happened AFTER his death.
Its said the same thing happened to Walmart after Sam Walton died.
@@rudy_dstroys1821 Ray Crock was kind of a crook
2:21 the perfect liminal space photo
Man! All that kitchen equipment is very, very expensive stuff. I'm surprised it's still there and no one has stolen it. It really makes me wonder what happened. The took down the signs, locked it up as is and walked away from it. Wish you had a back story for it.
This is so odd...
I wanted to see the drink system in detail...
Bag in a box?
@@fullthrottlejeffry It's how the drink syrups come to the store. We get 3 or 5 gallon bags of syrup in a box. We just pop off the cap and connect the hose.
Itd be really hard to steal from this location, which is why there’s not a lot of graffiti or vanadlism, the remoteness of the location doesn’t allow for people to take and destroy
@@fullthrottlejeffry work fast food an you'll see
@@fullthrottlejeffry Those boxes of syrup are heavy af too
I'm amazed that a McDonald's actually closed---it's one of the most successful franchises in history
McDonald's actually closes several locations a year. Sometimes they build a new location and the owner takes it over and the old store is closed and demolished. Sometimes They are just too close to another one, so closing one would actually push business more towards another one (So instead of having two mediocre profit stores you have one that has better profit, or one that operating at a loss and one that's operating barely above a loss you close one to create a profit)
This particular location was replaced with a new building a couple of blocks up the street.
They tend to close in areas where it's obvious that it's a business graveyard,as in your business won't stay afloat for very long. Use to live in Eugene Oregon,a small town with not much to do and they closed down their Walmart,McDonald's and a few other well known businesses.
@@jkminnich strange that if they moved they’d leave so much equipment tho
Many reasons it can happen since it's a franchise. Where I live we had a Wendy's shut down because I guess the owners weren't giving the corp their cut or something. No warning or anything just, poof gone.
1:49 closed 15 years ago, and there's still paper
I was 23 in 2006. I remember how the mcds started taking out their Playland's and turning all modern and boring. To me this doesn't seem that long ago but when this is when you were a kid it does seem that way in your twenties looking back. Once in your mid 30s it's surreal how everything looks and seems
Wait another 20 years. Everything you owned as kid will be "antique". I remember McDonald's being remodeled to look like these, an upgrade from what I remember them being when I was little. Now they're almost repulsive-drab and boxy, not at all warm and welcoming.
I’m 23 now and this design looks very old and bland to me. I do prefer the modern look
@@tay2944 I’m 24 and you’re insane
@@wortwortwort1686 ehh 🤷🏾♀️
50s and 60s restaurants were the best.
Very sad that kids now days never got to experience the pleasures of such kid friendly restaurants and a time where struggles weren't so big and you seen more families out. Now days everything is so depressed looking.
Inside looks like the old Taco Bell stores
I was about to say, this looks like my town’s taco bell lol
I love the look and feel of this place. Feels like your back in the 80s.
90's, this is from the 90's- I know I worked for one in the 90's.
@@jackson5116 god damn kids these days think anything older than 10 years was like when the Dinosaurs roamed the earth.
@@andrewkaminskas7721 well, I think that the interior McDonald's could be dated around of late '80s/ early' 90s, being that kind of design a resemble of Milano-Memphis style and new art deco.
So you're basically both right, although it is more probable that this McDonald's fornitures are from the early '90s
@@Mrmatteo08 Yeah this style is late 80s/early 90s. The 80s/90s both share similar styles of art
@@jackson5116 it closed in 2007
Looking at this location is reaching far into my memories as a child growing up in the nineties. I still remember this layout and the colours. Totally different to what we see as McDonalds today. Some really good memories. I even remembered one year, for the holidat season, they even sold VHS tapes and my mother bought one or two of them. They even had the McDonalds logo stamped on the box on the side.
The first memory that came into my mind was remembering that exact same color layout, when I was in 4th grade in '96.
Definitely remember those vhs tapes. You're probably thinking of the cartoon they made with the creators of Rugrats. "The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald"
The entire thing is actually up on youtube!
@@qrowing I bought those tapes for my kids, who are now 30 and 27 years old.
I even remember the songs from the episodes they watched them so much.
One song had the words “Set up camp” in the lyrics and the other song I remember was something like “This place is so creepy I must admit”.
I think the song is called On A Night Like This.
Lost my dad about two years ago, I will always remember and cherish the small memories I had with him - and that meant going to McDonald’s every other weekend when I’d have visitation with him. I remember when they all looked like this, takes me back to when life felt simpler.
I heard they closed because they couldn't get their ice cream machine repaired.
Lol I think arbys is catching on because the other day we went and ordered jamoca shakes and we were told that the machine wasn’t working lol.
@@ladydeanna3775 Yep! Heard that story before also. Seems to happen a lot in Laughlin! Stopped at in n out in Laughlin, they burned the fries. I called corporate and they sent me a 10.00 gift card. Always save your receipts 😊
@@christimecarmona6810 If that is your only problem, consider yourself damned lucky..
I heard it’s a ploy or even a myth that the ice cream
Maker and milkshake maker are not working 😠 😆 🥛 🍔 🍦
@@ladydeanna3775
I wish I had an arbys by me. All I have are diners for roast beef sandwiches or I got to make my own.
That's very interesting to see a McDonald's basically frozen in time from 2007. I worked for McDonald's around that time and alot of what I saw in there was exactly the same as the one I worked at. Brought back some memories
I started in 2003 and last worked in an old style one in 2008
@@Mikeb1001 Do you actually think people care about your life on RUclips haha
Your life must be sad @@entertainingblackmanvideos7691
@@yxngshadow6439 You don't know my life there you are a stranger making assumptions about other strangers on the internet
Even though I don't actively look for replies, I do think it's interesting to exchange conversation with people who have had similar experiences to myself, even if common and mundane. And I can appreciate the life of the person behind the keyboard as well@@entertainingblackmanvideos7691
I think they used to be much larger back then. My local one from the 80’s was full size with a BASEMENT for parties.
McDonald’s used to be a family destination, went there with the whole family so many times as a child.
Now it seems like just a drive-through destination…
I find it fascinating when something gets abandoned like this. I used to work for a company that converted an old McDonald's to a loan company. The main lobby where we worked was the playground area. Some parts of the building were still in the McDonald's colors and in the very back was where the freezers were. My employees and I used to joke in the summer time when the air conditioning would come on that you could briefly smell stale french fries 🍟.
I heard Ray Krocs ghost voice whisper..
.. "YOU GOT TIME TO LEAN, YOU GOT TIME TO CLEAN" (With a slight wind breeze)
BEST COMMENT HANDS DOWN!!!!!!! 😂😂😂
I used to work at McDonald’s and can still hear my old McDonald’s managers screaming that! 🤣
Ronald’s body is probably hidden in there somewhere, CEO thought no one would ever check here.
LOL 🤣🤣🤣
Bruh you gotta understand... It was all cool and intriguing until I realized they even left the equipment😳 I'm curious to know what happened mcd wise that the restaurant just gets LEFT like that... The bathrooms were almost pristine.... The ABS in the back was still there AND the ice machine looked brand new🤯 Just crazy and GREAT find bro 💪
They built a new one less than a mile away from this one. Easier to get in and out of the parking lot at the new one it has a red light.
@@Dame48Buick That's cool. But usually even if they open another location, they clean and take out the old equipment. Most operators will save the friars or the grills to use as replacements if they're still operational, same thing with the shake machine. And the other stuff like the stainless steel prep tables are usually sold off for scrap. So I'm really wondering why everything was left behind too. I mean shake machines grills and fryers are very expensive. Looking at that shake machine grill and fryer set those could still be used today (if they were still operating lol).
Clearly the site of an SCP that was captured some time in 2007
This is how all McDonald's looked back in the 80s. The glory days of fast food.
Not 80s. This is early 90s decor.
@@patrickmccarron5059 very close though.
this is mid 90's
@@patrickmccarron5059 closer to the mid-90's, but still the 90's.
@@patrickmccarron5059'95/'96.
I am amazed that no items have been stolen or broken after so many years.
i genuinely wonder what led them to just … leaving everything there. so much equipment standing there that could be repurposed
How is this abandoned McDonald's much cleaner than some that are still operational....????
I mean, you're not wrong.
Good point lol
Bc no ones utilizing them..duuh.
They probably cleaned it before they shut down, and afterwards, no customers and crew.
I love to wonder about the history of these places when watching these types of videos. Imagining the people that ate there before it was closed and where they might be now. I'll never know but it's still neat to think about.
Absolutely amazing. Truly frozen in time. What a time those walls have stood dormant. '07 was a different age.
I'm amazed they left all of the grills, fryers, and refrigerators behind. Most of it probably isn't salvageable now, but at the time it would have been worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Oh you'd be surprised with what you can do with old kitchen equipment. One time I bought an old BBQ off ebay and turned it into a cooker that I can use as a se,x toy while I waited for my food to cook.
@@gecko2738 😳 biih, whet?
It's such a liminal space, it gives that feeling overall, it feels nostalgic and creepy, but so hypnotizing
It’s so weird because the blue and pink color scheme they had going reminds me more of a Taco Bell than a McDonalds. Is that how it really looked in the 80s?
Oh yeah ..people had these colors in their homes back in the 80s...This place was never remodeled .
There is a McDonald’s in jersey city who last I was there about 5 years ago had the same pink design.
That color scheme was a carry over from the '90's. The 80's had different colors
It was actually green and pink. My cousins used to have wall paper like that but the design were lines in a hand fan shape. You just don't see those colors together anymore.
Nah. More like late 90s and depending on where you lived, as late as the late 00s.
This McDonalds is the EXACT same as the one near me when I was growing up. Same layout, and the same 90's colors that are the teal and magenta colors on the walls and chairs. It was like this up until last year when they finally remodeled it to match their new brown and dull franchises that are meant to be less fun and more mature and boring for some reason.
OK that square glass just pulled me the hell back
Just so eerie,creepy,quiet,and nostalgic.
And yet the vanilla shake machine still works but not in my town or yours . Thanks for the cool content .
Haha your telling me and no problem thanks for watching!
@@TriangleofMass Hey if you get some time I think I seen it on Netflix but a kid does a Documentary on McDonalds shake machine No not playing . Its nuts to find out why there machines seem to be out of order and it has zero to do with not cleaning them properly on a daily basis check it out like everything it's all bout the money .
That why it closed the ice-cream machine broke
It looks like that ice cream machine is the older model they used before the new ones that break all the time. The older ones were much more reliable and could be repaired or reset very easily by an employee or any refrigeration tech. The new ones shut down very easily and have to be repaired by a technician from the manufacturer.
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everytime i watch these i just wonder if this will be the entire world one day. no humans just old empty buildings and roads.
We still have a McDonald's that hasn't been remodeled (yet) near Middletown, PA. There was another one in Harrisburg that still looked old-school until last year. :(
I'll put in a request with that franchise owner and get that squared away. Thanks for bringing that to our attention
I would like to know the story behind this. It looks like one night they just closed the door and left and no one ever went back. Of course all the equipment is 15 years old so, I'm guessing that McDonalds doesn't care anything about it. It does look like someone came in there and cleaned some of the bathroom recently....However I'm fairly sure there is no water.
Yeah I'm wondering what happened also. Generally when you close a McDonald's you take the equipment out, especially like the grills the fryers the shake machine because you can usually use those at another location. Those fryers he showed are still good and current, they're good until their pots burn out basically. Even like the stainless stuff that can't be used at another location (like the prep tables and stuff) are usually sold off for scrap. So it makes me wonder what really happened at this location. Did the owner suddenly die and McDonald's didn't reclaim it. Was there some kind of financial default or something? Generally 6 months after a store closes that they're not going to use again they just demolish the building
I'm not cleaning that bathroom!
A new McDonald’s was built about a half mile east of this one. This old McDonald’s sits in front of a mostly abandoned shopping center that used to have a Kroger that moved to a new location and an abandoned Kmart.
@@jkminnich Yeah so? What does any of that have to do with the fact that simply closed it without taking the equipment out.
Small town where the have 2 main "strips". This one used to be in the parking lot with Walmart. When they moved the Walmart to the other strip to expand its size they moved the McDonald's with it. Small town but only McDonald's and Walmart in the entire county so both businesses are very busy.
The building will remain abandoned and unused because they rezoned the area of the old McDonald's.
Specifically where the counter and that corner with the diagonal table and the smaller one… that is identical to how the mcdonald’s in my hometown used to look. (2:55 in video) My eyes welled up with tears immediately. Being a kid and going there every saturday with my family. That was our favorite seat. I can’t help but let the tears flow remembering those simpler times. And the Hi-C. Nothing will ever compare!
So strange to look at. This Mcdonald's looks just like the one I used to work at almost 30 years ago! It's wild!
Where is this place? USA or Canada?
@@xnibbyjonas I think this location is in the US
@@shandi6246 shandi you smell like mail
@@shandi6246
Yes it has to be. I'm pretty sure that the trademark on the paper would have the Canadian leaf if it were in Canada.
McDonald's has not really changed much over the years.. aside from the new remodels
Pretty damn nuts seeing some of that 2007 promotional material still lying around after fifteen years or so. Calling it a time capsule really is accurate.
Bro you’ve got an asmr voice this video is relaxing as hell
5:17 - French fry hangin in there
Oh god it really does look like that and I gotta say that’s kinda gross but cool at the same time I wonder how long that’s been there for
@@TriangleofMass that French fry barely got eaten by mold
Looking at the lobby brings me back to my childhood and early teen years.
I recently worked at a McDonald's and it is crazy how much of the equipment looks exactly the same and how much has changed.
I work at McDonald’s.
Abandoned McDonald’s photo: Creepy, eerie, entirely lifeless
Abandoned McDonald’s Video: Peaceful, nostalgia, mostly lifeless other than the recorder
McDonald's corporate should lean into this and reopen it with everything intact, I bet loads of people would flock to it
People apparently didn’t flock to it before….
@@GreenAppelPie 🤦🏻♀️ obviously. You missed he point. People have a thing for nostalgia and having a 1980s style McDonald’s opened in 2021 would be awesome. Not the same as 1980s McDonald’s opened in the 1980s.
And all the incredibly expensive equipment a new owner would have to purchase is all waiting lol.
don't know if that's a good idea, knowing them they'd either renovate this place and turn it into yet another depressing looking mcdonalds, or they'd tear it down and build a new one in it's place
Would be even cooler if they JUST served the original menu from that time as well
I think all those wall decorations were already considered retro back when this McDonald's closed... awesome video and I subscribed to the channel!!
Yes I do have to agree with you and thank you for subscribing hope you have a fantastic rest of your morning!
@@TriangleofMass my question is can they Restored to reopen the McDonald's as a new one?
@@TriangleofMass where does it take place?
I remember in the late 90s as a kid going to McDonald’s.. such a memorable thing for me… I do miss it.
This was the McDonald's I went to as a kid in Johnston RI! Thanks for bringing me on a trip down memory lane, it used to have a play place outside as well.
I thought it was in Johnston! My parents live around the corner from it.
@@stremblay1026 where? interesting...
@@woody95124 Hartford Ave
@@stremblay1026 Thnx
@Eddie Lampert they opened a new location down the road about 10ish years ago.
I remember the McDonald's in Green cove springs Florida look just like this, took our kids to it in the '90s, it's a shame things can't be like they we're back then. Seems like it was a much simpler time.
There's just something about really old school restaurant décor. I kind of miss it because nowadays they've been remodeling and updating various styles to look more modern.
Yep all bright shitty LED lighting, white and grey hues. Not the warm soft colours of yesteryear.
@@royfontaine5526 I feel like companies "update" decor as a way to attract a new generation of customers. There's really nothing wrong with pale color schemes
Thanks for sharing this! Abandoned buildings fascinate me. There was an abandoned Firestone in my childhood hometown, but I never went inside. I did see it a couple of times when it was dark enough that other places were turning their lights on. It was eerie that it was the only building that remained dark.
I'm shocked it's just some plywood that has protected all the incredibly expensive equipment inside of that place from theft for well over a decade. Seriously, makes no sense. Or... unless this must be an extraordinarily chill and safe place to live!
8:33 the nostalgia one bag can bring is crazy. It was like straight out of movies or TV shows, I just had like a flashback 😂
6:12 damn its actually cool to see left over monitors in an abandon building, especially crts. these are really valuable actually.