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A standard 'McDrive' location along the N7 South of the commune Pierrelatte. Built in the late 1990's or early 2000's and got the new exterior to meet the new European corporate identity in 2011/2012.
McDonald's Pierrelatte
RN 7
Quartier Beauregard Nord
26700 PIERRELATTE
Tél: +33 (0)4 75 98 86 30
Featuring: Drive-Thru - EasyOrder
Store#: 0950
Date of opening: estimated late 1990's/early 2000's
The “Mighty Mac”
The Mackinac Bridge is currently the fifth longest suspension bridge in the world. In 1998, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan became the longest with a total suspension of 12,826 feet. The Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere.
The total length of the Mackinac Bridge is 26,372 feet. The length of the suspension bridge (including anchorages) is 8,614 feet. The length from cable bent pier to cable bent pier is 7,400 feet. Length of main span (between towers) is 3,800 feet.
The width of the roadway is 54 feet. The outside lanes are 12 feet wide (2), the inside lanes are 11 feet wide (2), the center mall is 2 feet wide, and the catwalk, curb and rail width is 3 feet on each side – totaling 54 feet. The stiffening truss width in the suspended span is 68 feet wide making it wider than the roadway it supports.
The height of the roadway at mid-span is approximately 200 feet above water level. The vertical clearance at normal temperature is 155 feet at the center of the main suspension span and 135 feet at the boundaries of the 3,000 ft. navigation channel.
All suspension bridges are designed to move to accommodate wind, change in temperature, and weight. It is possible that the deck at center span could move as much as 35 feet (east or west) due to high winds. This would only happen under severe wind conditions. The deck would not swing or “sway” but rather move slowly in one direction based on the force and direction of the wind. After the wind subsides, the weight of the vehicles crossing would slowly move it back into center position.
The steel superstructure will support one ton per lineal foot per roadway (northbound or southbound). The length of the steel superstructure is 19,243 feet. Each direction will, therefore, support 19,243 tons. The answer is 38,486 tons (2 x 19,243 tons).
Facts & Figures
The Mackinac Bridge is currently the fifth longest suspension bridge in the world. The bridge opened to traffic on November 1, 1957. The following facts and figures are quoted from David Steinman’s book “Miracle Bridge at Mackinac”.
LENGTHS
Total Length of Bridge (5 Miles) : 26,372 Ft 8,038 Meters
Total Length of Steel Superstructure : 19,243 Ft. 5,865 Meters
Length of Suspension Bridge (including Anchorages) : 8,614 Ft. 8,614 Ft.
Total Length of North Approach : 7,129 Ft. : 2,173 Meters
Length of Main Span (between Main Towers) : 3,800 Ft. 1,158 Meters
HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS
Height of Main Towers above Water : 552 Ft 168.25 Meters
Maximum Depth to Rock at Midspan : Unknown Unknown
Maximum Depth of Water at Midspan : 295 Ft. 90 Meters
Maximum Depth of Tower Piers below Water : 210 Ft. 64 Meters
Height of Roadway above Water at Midspan : 199 Ft. 61 Meters
Underclearance at Midspan for Ships : 155 Ft. 47 Meters
Maximum Depth of Water at Piers : 142 Ft. 43 Meters
Maximum Depth of Piers Sunk through Overburden : 105 Ft. 32 Meters
CABLES
Total Length of Wire in Main Cables : 42,000 Miles 67,592 km
Maximum Tension in Each Cable : 16,000 Tons 14,515,995 kg
Number of Wires in Each Cable : 12,580
Weight of Cables : 11,840 Tons 10,741,067 kg
Diameter of Main Cables : 24 1/2 Inches 62.23 cm
Diameter of Each Wire : 0.196 Inches .498 cm
WEIGHTS
Total Weight of Bridge : 1,024,500 Tons 929,410,766 kg
Total Weight of Concrete : 931,000 Tons 844,589 kg
Total Weight of Substructure : 919,100 Tons 326,931,237 kg
Total Weight of Two Anchorages : 360,380 Tons 326,931,237 kg
Total Weight of Two Main Piers : 318,000 Tons 288,484,747 kg
Total Weight of Superstructure : 104,400 Tons 94,710,087 kg
Total Weight of Structural Steel : 71,300 Tons 64,682,272 kg
Weight of Steel in Each Main Tower : 6,500 Tons 5,896,701 kg
Total Weight of Cable Wire : 11,840 Tons 10,741,067 kg
Total Weight of Concrete Roadway : 6,660 Tons 6,041,850 kg
Total Weight of Reinforcing Steel : 3,700 Tons 3,356,584 kg
RIVETS AND BOLTS
Total Number of Steel Rivets : 4,851,700
Total Number of Steel Bolts : 1,016,600
DESIGN AND DETAIL DRAWINGS
Total Number of Engineering Drawings : 4,000
Total Number of Blueprints : 85,000
MEN EMPLOYED
Total, at the Bridge Site : 3,500
At Quarries, Shops, Mills, etc. : 7,500
Total Number of Engineers : 350
IMPORTANT DATES
Mackinac Bridge Authority Appointed : June, 1950
Board of Three Engineers Retained : June, 1950
Report of Board of Engineers : January, 1951
Financing and Construction Authorized by Legislature : April 30, 1952
D.B. Steinman Selected as Engineer : January, 1953
Preliminary Plans and Estimates Completed : March, 1953
Construction Contracts Negotiated : March, 1953
Bids Received for Sale of Bonds : December 17, 1953
Began Construction : May 7, 1954
Open to traffic : November 1, 1957
Formal dedication : June 25-28, 1958
50 millionth crossing : September 25, 1984
40th Anniversary Celebration : November 1, 1997
100 millionth crossing : June 25, 1998
In Memory Of
Forever Remembered
During the construction of the Mackinac Bridge in the 1950’s, five men unfortunately lost their lives.
One man died in a diving accident; one man fell in a caisson while welding; one man fell into the water and drowned; and two men fell from a temporary catwalk near the top of north tower.
The names of those five men (and the date of their deaths) are listed below.
Frank Pepper, Sept. 16, 1954
James R. LeSarge, Oct. 10, 1954
Albert Abbott, Oct. 25, 1954
Jack C. Baker, June 6, 1956
Robert Koppen, June 6, 1956
After the bridge was built and opened to traffic, one MBA maintenance worker lost his life. On August 7, 1997, Daniel Doyle, a bridge painter, fell from his painting platform and drowned in the Straits of Mackinac. His tragic and unfortunate death shocked everyone.
Dan and others who have lost their lives on the job are permanently honored by MDOT in the Clare Welcome Center located in Clare, Michigan. The Employee Memorial is a permanent tribute to highway workers all over Michigan who lost their lives along highways and bridges. The Clare memorial provides an opportunity to educate the public about the human cost of building and maintaining Michigan’s transportation system.
All six of these men will forever be remembered by many.
Prentiss M. Brown
1889-1973
Born in St. Ignace, Michigan, Mr. Brown Graduated from LaSalle High school in 1905, Albion College in 1911, and did post graduate work at the University of Illinois. Prentiss married Marion Walker, and practiced law with his father in the St. Ignace area. From 1932 to 1943 he served in the U.S. Congress and Senate. In 1950 Prentiss M. Brown was appointed to the Mackinac Bridge Authority and elected its first Chairman. Mr. Brown, with the assistance of fellow Authority members William Cochran, Murray Van Wagoner, and Charles Fisher, Jr., secured the financing for the Mackinac Bridge. Mr. Brown considered this to be one of his most rewarding accomplishments.
Prentiss M. Brown is well known for his struggle to get the Mackinac Bridge built over the Straits of Mackinac. Mr. Jack Carlisle, in a radio broadcast over WWJ radio station on February 22, 1954, told his listeners of Mr. Brown’s struggle. The transcript from Mr. Carlisle’s broadcast was later published in a newspaper and is as follows:
” After a 20-year fight which often seemed hopeless, there finally is going to be a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac. As one of the states most ambitious projects, it will link Michigan’s two peninsula’s. It will cost about $99 million. It is scheduled for completion in November, 1957.
The bridge project had many stalwart partisans. However, the project actually became a reality through the determination of one man – Prentiss M. Brown, Chairman of the Michigan Mackinac Bridge Authority. Brown, a former United States Senator and Chairman of the Board of the Detroit Edison Company, refused to accept defeat when it seemed inevitable. Prentiss M. Brown just wouldn’t stay licked.
His energetic determination to get the Mackinac Bridge financed is undoubtedly due to the fact that he was born and raised in the midst of a daily realization of the need for the bridge. Now 64 years old, Prentiss Brown spent a lifetime in his old home town of Saint Ignace, Michigan. He was once a bellhop at the old Astor Hotel on Mackinac Island. Probably the bridge idea would have died completely in the last year – if it had not been for an incident that happened to Brown 34 years ago. He was 30 years old then and a lawyer. He was scheduled to appear before the State Supreme Court in Lansing to argue a case.
Brown had to get across the Straits to catch a train at Mackinaw City. However, both of the ferry boats were stuck in the winter ice. He and another hardy voyager, who also had important business on the side of the Straits, hired a horse and a cutter. They started across the ice. They ran into ice hummocks ten feet high and had to send the cutter back to Saint Ignace. They proceeded on foot.
They ran into 50 acres of open water, like a big pond, and had to circle it. All in all, they hiked four miles across the ice. The wind was blowing up a small gale. It was snowing. By the time they had spent most of the day walking – well, they missed their train.
Brown said in a recollection today, “That bitter hike across the Straits made a lasting impression on me – for the need of a bridge across the Straits.”
Prentiss Brown never forgot. That is the reason that 20 years ago Brown became legal counsel for the first Mackinac Bridge Commission. Back in 1933 under Governor Comstock. And Prentiss worked for love. He would accept no money. Four years ago he became chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority. By 1952, it looked like the RFC woud finance the bridge across the Straits. Whereupon, a New York investment broker offered to organize a private syndicate in October, 1952, to do the financing.
He tried to float the Mackinac Bridge bonds in March and again in June, 1953. Both times he failed. As a matter of fact, it looked like the bridge project was a gone goose last June. For lack of financing. Due to the high cost of money. But Prentiss refused to stay licked. The project was revived on the New York bond market in November due to the increase in interest rates and the increase in traffic across the Straits.
It was only six days ago that a check for $98,500,000 to finance the Straits of Mackinac Bridge was put into Brown’s hands in New York. One hundred and fifty investment brokers underwrote the sale of revenue bonds for a commission pot of three million dollars.
Actually, the deal went through last year with just 13 days to spare before the offer of State maintenance for the bridge would have expired. In a four-year battle under Brown to get the bridge finance – this was a slim margin to win a victory.
Michigan will not soon forget the gallant fight of Prentiss M. Brown for the Straits of Mackinac Bridge.”
The Mackinac Bridge Authority has created a token in honor of Prentiss M. Brown. To view this and all other tokens visit Token Gift Packs / Medallion.
Some times bad decisions are very tasty. I love Chicken McNuggets and big Macs. I only do McDonald's about every 6 months, but I do it right when I do.
In Orléans and vicinity there are in total 7 McDonald's restaurants from which this is the only instore downtown location. Located opposite the station and just around the corner of the Rue de la République, the major shopping street of Orléans Centre.
McDonald's Orléans Centre Ville
3-5, Boulevard de Verdun
45000 ORLEANS
Tél: +33 (0)2 38 81 05 98
Featuring: (instore)
Store#: 0955
Date of opening: unknown (estimated early 2000's)
Westbound billboard on the Santan Freeway Loop 202 for McDonald's.
Slow down.
New Raspberry & Diet Sweet Tea
$1 any size.
McDonald's www.mcdonalds.com.
I'm lovin' it.
The Santan Freeway is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. Onsite Insite offers billboards along the Santan Freeway between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 in Chandler.
McDonald's Nice Jean Médecin 09/06/2017 19h07
The first McDonald's in Nice opened in the 1980's and is still open on the same location. One the six McDonald's restaurants within the city limits of Nice. Three of them are located in the center (instore restaurants).
McDonald's Nice Jean Médecin
47 bis Avenue Jean Médecin
06000 NICE
Tél: +33 04 93 87 04 01
Featuring: (instore)
Store#: 2500 0031
Date of opening: unknown, 1980's
McDonald's Charleroi
Route de Philippeville 238
6001 MARCINELLE (CHARLEROI)
Tél: 07/1473116
Franchise: S.A.R.D.I.N.E. SPRL
Store#: 0019
I know what you're thinking: do they even have McDonald's in the world of Pixar's Cars?
ANSWER: Yes, they do... they serve hamburgers made out of ground-up cow-tractors. You didn't think they had them in the fields just for cow-tractor tipping, did you?
The Christmas edition of McDonald's Paris Champs-Elysées (click for the daylight version) with the new Winter time illuminations of 2011 on the Champs-Elysées.
McDonald's Paris Champs-Elysées
140 Avenue des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris
Tél: 01 53 77 21 06
Featuring: McCafé
Store#: 0076
Date of opening: unknown (estimated 1988)
I visited McDonald's Capelle a/d IJssel Hoofdweg before in 2007 and found it hard to take a decent photo of it. But at the other side of the road (Capelseweg that it) there is a mall (Woonmall Alexandrium) with a parking deck on the roof which happened to be an excellent location for a shot of this restaurant.
Since my last visit this store has been totally refurbished meeting the new visual standards of the European corporate identity of McDonald's and this restaurant has a dual order point in their Drive-Thru and above all; it has implemented the MFY ( "Made For You" system). And in weekends this restaurant is open around the clock (still quite unique in the Netherlands).
McDonald's Capelle a/d IJssel Hoofdweg
Hoofdweg 1
2908 LB CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL
Tel: +31 (0)10 458 94 00
Featuring: Drive-Thru - Playzone - 24h (fri+sat)
Store number: 1161
Date of opening: 11/12/1996
A few meager pieces of steel have gone up for the new building. They were in the process of installing another one while I was there. This will likely be the start of a skeleton for yet another eyebrow style McDonald's building. The building across the way next door started as a Captain D's, became a Krystal for a while, and currently houses an Arby's. It likely exudes far more character than the new McDonald's will.
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Former McDonald's site, Germantown Pkwy. near Poplar Ave., Germantown TN
The Drive-Thru of McDonald's Utrecht Leidsche Rijn is located in the parking structure of a shopping mall. This shopping mall is situated right next to the highway A1 and called The Wall due to the fact that the whole building is built as a mega noise reduction wall.
The entrance and exit procedure by car makes this Drive-Thru a bit of a threshold to use but you get a ticket to leave the parking for free when using the McDonald's Drive-Thru.
McDonald's Utrecht Leidsche Rijn
Hertogswetering 169
3543 AS UTRECHT
Tel: 030-2415638
Featuring: Drive-Thru
Store#: 1274
Date of opening: 25/07/2009
269/365. A photo a day for a year.
Oh well, I'm not particularly pleased with the result—that's why I look so glum ;) although I think the idea was sound.
One of the 5 McDonald's restaurants in the area of Arnhem. Two instores from which the one in the center (Rijnstraat) is one of the oldest still excisting restaurants of the chain in the Netherlands and the one in Duiven the second restaurant featuring a Drive-Thru in the Netherlands. This restaurant is located next to Gelredome football stadium, home of the football club Vitesse.
The interior of this typical mid-1990's restaurant has been restyled in 2008 together with the terrace extension visible on the right at this photo.
McDonald's Arnhem Gelredome
Batavierenweg 29
6841 HN ARNHEM
Tel: +31 (0)26 32 12 166
Featuring: Drive-Thru
Store#: 1190
Date of opening: 15/10/1998
A little over a month after the last photos were taken here at the Germantown McDonald's, and this enter sign at the front was the only thing seen remaining from the good ole' days. In addition to the classic building being obliterated since then, the vast majority of the parking lot looks to be gone as well.
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Former McDonald's site, Germantown Pkwy. near Poplar Ave., Germantown TN
An attempt to make a Big Mac at home. Worked reasonably well, but next time will try to use thinner burgers as it was a bit tall!
One of the 4 McDonald's restaurants along the beaches of South Tenerife. This one is located at the beach of Fañabe and Torviscas.
McDonald's Fañabe
Centro Comercial Costa
Local 80
Playa Torviscas
38679 ADEJE
TENERIFE (SPAIN)
Teléfona: 922715578
This McDonald's is located on the way from Eastbourne to Brighton near Seaford and is open around the clock. The interiour has undergone the European McDonald's makeover and the exterior has undergone some minor changes including new signs and the removal of the once so famous McDonald's roofbeams.
McDonald's Newhaven
The Drive Retail Park Drove Road
Newhaven
East Sussex BN9 OAG
Tel: 01273 612594
Featuring: Drive-Thru
Store#: unknown
Date of opening: unknown
This one is a real pain-in-the-butt to get to, as it's in a newly-developed area, south of the Ottawa Train Station, with no sidewalks and irregular bus service (in the evenings, at least).
Another view of the new Shelby Dr. McDonald's in the Whitehaven neighborhood of Memphis. The road sign in back is for Millbranch Rd., and is just up from the site of a former Minute Man Hamburger place. Across Millbranch is the Millbranch Center strip center, virtually unchanged since it opened sometime in the 60's. I remember my Dad taking me to a restaurant in that strip center (possibly a Gridiron Restaurant) and asking him what a Minute Man was! I was very very young, possibly three or four years old, before my brother was even born. That Minute Man was either demolished, or remodeled into a long-running wedge style Burger King. In 2007 Burger King moved to the other side of Shelby Dr. and the old location was demolished.
Also, amazing how this corner location still has the wooded area in back that can be seen in the Pure Oil photo from many decades earlier: flic.kr/p/62yNUj.
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McDonald's, 2013-built, Shelby Dr. at Millbranch Rd., Memphis
This "mall" is a collection of the usual big box stores in Strandherd, in southern Nepean.
Stitched together in Autostitch.
This restaurant opened in the year 2012 and is part of the development of the Zone hôtelière et de restauration "Porte des Alpilles". Together with the construction of a restaurant Courtepaille, B&B Hotels and Ibis Budget. McDonald's seems to be the first to open up as the hotels are still under construction and Courtepaille is still only on the signs with "ouverture prochain".
This restaurant features a Drive-Thru and EasyOrder. It is located along the N113 between Arles and Salon-de-Provence at exit 11.
McDonald's Saint-Martin-de-Crau
Avenue Marcellin Berthelot - zone Ecopôle
13310 SAINT MARTIN DE CRAU
Tél: +33 (0)4 90 52 38 82
Featuring: Drive-Thru - EasyOrder
Store#: 1315
Opening: 2012
The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Opened in 1957, the 5-mile-long bridge (familiarly known as "Big Mac" and "Mighty Mac") connects the city of St. Ignace on the north end with the village of Mackinaw City on the south.
A Ottawa Police Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor parked on George Street near the back entrance of the Rideau Street McDonald's. There were a lot of "ne'er do wells" in there this evening, though I didn't observe police taking any direct action while I was eating there.
Incidentally, I took a photo of the same storefronts last November... the McDonald's logo'd-up vacant storefront that used to be the Rideau Street McDonald's rear dining area is now a Neon clothing store.
Zaandam was the first city in Europe to have a McDonald's restaurant. This first European McDonald's restaurant was located in de Vermiljoenweg and opened on 21/08/1971 by founder Ray Kroc. Franchisee was Ahold. This restaurant closed a few years later and McDonald's came back in Zaandam in 1987 on Ankersmitplein in a shopping strip. In 1997 another McDonald's opened on the Gedempte Gracht. Both of the locations haven't survived in Zaandam (Ankersmidtplein closed down in 2005) and in this McDonald's restaurant featuring a Drive-Thru built in the year 2000 is the only McDonald's in Zaandam. It's not the first McDonald's in Europe but Zaandam was the place where the success story of McDonald's in Europe began.
In August 2010 a second (fifth?) McDonald's restaurant will open on Stormhoek.
/\/\cDonald's Zaandam
Koningin Julianaweg 45
1502 DZ Zaandam
Phone: 075 - 6318843
Featuring: Drive-Thru
Store#: 1220
Date of opening: 18/12/2000
A small restaurant on the corner of the Boulevard Davout and Cours de Vincennes. Since December 2012 very strategically located near the terminus of Tramway T3a and T3b.
At the moment I took this photo McDonald's has 66 restaurants in Paris "intra-muros" (excluding the outskirts, suburbs and banlieus). All of the 66 are now on Flickr:
McDonald's Paris Restaurants (on my Flickr stream)
McDonald's Paris Porte de Vincennes
111 Cours de Vincennes
75020 PARIS
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 67 40 44
Featuring: (instore)
Store#: 641
Date of opening: (around 1996)
Another McDonald's Monday, with pictures this time from a return trip to the Batesville Mississippi location. Unlike the inexplicably altered Taco Bell in Batesville, this McDonald's remains safe from corporate bungling for now. And that Taco Bell is far enough away from this McD's that hopefully they won't get any bright ideas anytime soon about eyebrowing this somewhat vintage copper roof building.
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McDonald's, early-mid 70's-built(?), Hwy 6 near Hwy 51, Batesville MS
BNSF ES44DC 7261 & CSX AC44CW 544 are power on a westbound unit grain train sitting beside BNSF ES44DC 7633 & a Big Mac, which are power on a westbound stack train. Both trains are waiting at the Helena, Montana MRL depot, waiting on cleareance to head west past the site of the derailment at Austin, MT.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Canon EFS 18-55mm lens
It has occurred to me that this McDonald's may turn out to be even blander than many of the other built in the last few years (I know, how is that even possible!??). Those "industrial-style" yellow steel beams and gray-silver front accents and drive-thru overhangs might be disallowed here due to city codes, possibly leaving pretty much just a boring brown brick box if that turns out to be the case. I'm very curious now to see the final outcome of this, and what Germantown allows McDonald's to "get away with" here as far as exterior decor. They've been pretty lax with those codes in the past few years, but may decide to lay the law down on this McDonald's after all. Stay tuned...
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McDonald's, 2014-built, Germantown Pkwy. near Poplar Ave., Germantown TN
Steaming along at Beamish Museum, and showing off it's fine midnight blue livery, is 1910-built McLaren road locomotive 1110 "Big Mac", registered BF 5258 and weighing in at 16 tons.
The engine was formerly used in New Zealand where it gained the nickname "Big Mac". The name plate was only added to the engine a couple of years ago.
The engine was at Beamish as part of the Great War Steam Fair of April 2018.
Copyright © 2018 Terry Pinnegar Photography. All Rights Reserved. THIS IMAGE IS NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION!
PA_1047 [50 points]
A new red/black yellow eyed big space invader has landed in the 11ème arrondissement of Paris. Estimated date of invasion is end of March or early April.
All my photos of PA_1047:
PA_1047 (Close-up, April 2013)
PA_1047 (Streetview 1, April 2013)
PA_1047 (Streetview 2, April 2013)
PA_1047 (streetview 3, April 2013)
PA_1047 (Streetview 4, June 2022)
Date of invasion: unknown (First seen on Flickr on 08/04/2013 by Tofz4u)
[Visited this space invader 6 days afte first appearance on Flickr]
In the early Seventies, MacDonald's wasn't as ubiquitous in Europe as it is now. Even so, there were a bunch of them in Paris, including this one on the Boulevard Saint Michel. I bought my first Big Mac (ever!) in a Macdonald's on the Champs Elysees.
One of the busiest spots of the city Amsterdam and unfortunately not one of the biggest McDonald's restaurants you could think of. Burger King at Leidseplein has a better location in terms of size and ergonomics. The kitchen and counter area are oblong at this McDonald's. But the location on the corner is good enough. Since 2011 opposite this store the first Starbucks in Amsterdam opened its doors and in the late 1980's KFC had a store at the other corner but this restaurant closed down after a short period of time.
No McCafé, EasyOrder or play area here, just food for monster crowds during late night rushes in this entertainment area.
McDonald's Amsterdam Leidsestraat
Leidsestraat 97
1017 NZ Amsterdam
Tel: 020 - 626.01.36
Featuring: (regular instore restaurant)
Store#: 1024
Date of opening: 01/04/1983