A mannequin behind a glass display case, formerly inside the Downtown Glendale McDonald’s. (Photo by Damian Alexander)
Marble walls. Artificial lilies. Traumatizing mannequins. For years, they could be found in Glendale — inside one of the most unusual McDonald’s locations in America.
Greg Ruben is a documentarian who profiles deserving L.A. subjects like a legendary courtroom illustrator, a 20-mile power line, a car with gnomes painted on it, and a lost neighborhood.
In an exclusive for L.A. Material, he visits the museum-worthy McDonald’s of Glendale, and decodes the message it sends us from a consequential period in urban planning history.
Because this video is in Ruben’s signature vertical format, we recommend enlarging to full screen.
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