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Thread #19944   Message #2792436
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Dec-09 - 07:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lizzy Lindsay (Child 226)
Subject: RE: Origins: Lizzy Lindsay (Child 226)
Digression- Sandy McLean brings up McDonald's restaurants, the name of which comes from Dick and Mac McDonald who opened a Bar-B-Q in San Berrardino, California, in 1940. The restaurant name has nothing to do with Scotland.
In 1954, Ray Croc found out the brothers were looking for a national franchising agent, and in 1965 opened one in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Of course the name was copyrighted to protect it for the restaurants, the number of which increased rapidly, carrying the Golden Arches around the world.