25 Fascinating Facts About Fast Food Chains-- Part 1

From March 18, 2022, YardBarker  "25 fascinating facts about your favorite burger chains: by Matt Sulem.

As you travel around our great land, you often see what are called fast-food restaurants.  

I am just listing them.  For pictures and more information, go to the site.

1.  McDonald's feeds 68 million people a day with 37,000 locations in 120 countries.

2.  McDonald's serves up 75 hamburgers (of various types) every second.

3.  One in eight of every American worker has been employed by McDonald's.  (Not me.  My first job through high school and parts of college was at Burger King.)

4.  McDonald's  golden arches are more recognizable than the Christian cross.  (I don't know about that.)

5.  McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of both Coca-Cola and toys.  (I don't know, they never gave me any toys!!!)

6.  Subway has more locations than McDonald's.  45,000 to be exact, maybe more.  But, McDonald's does a whole lot more business:  $40.3 billion to $7.1 billion.

--RoadDog

Roadtripping to National Museums-- Part 5

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PLAY, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK--

Release you inner child at the home of the National Toy Hall of Fame and take a ride on a 1918 carousel and hopscotch down Sesame Street..  Opened in 1982 and featuring the personal collection of Margaret Woodbury Strong, the museum has hundreds of thousands of toys, dolls, board games, electronic games, books, photographs and historical material dealing with playing.

Be sure to see Thomas Edison's 1890s singing doll, an 1843 Mansion of Happiness board game and a 1933 Monopoly game handmade by Charles Darrow, who first marketed the game. 

Maybe you'll even find that toy your mon threw out.


NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM, VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA--

A complete workshop with tools templates, molds, ledgers used by guitar craftsmen John D'Angelico and James D-Aquisto is featured at the museum's "Great American Guitars" exhibit, featuring instruments by top American guitar makers like E.F. Martin, Orville Gibson and Fender.

The museum has a 15,000-instrument collection (besides guitars).  There are ornate reed organs and 500 horns and other band instruments made by G.C. Conn Company in Elkhart, Indiana  There is even a combination crutch and electric lap steel guitar made for country singer barbara Mandrell after a leg injury and a heart-shaped trumpet from the 1978 movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Two More to Go.  --RoadDog