McDonald's started with a humble food stand near Monrovia Airport, run by Patrick McDonald. When it first opened in 1937, it wasn't called McDonald's. It didn't even sell hamburgers.

But Patrick's sons, Dick and Mac would later move the stand to San Bernadino and create the first McDonald's restaurant. The kitchen was so efficiently run that entrepreneur Ray Kroc saw the potential for a nation-wide chain, one that he would go on to own himself after cutting Dick and Mac out of the business and let's just the boys they Weren't Loving It.