mcdonalds

The funeral cortege left the home of the deceased at Highgate Hill and concluded at the Mount Thompson Crematorium. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/117632845

Lewis McDonald (1881-1936), printer and Labor Party administrator, was born on 22 December 1881 at Auchterhead, Lanark, Scotland. Educated at the Brisbane Central School and at university extension classes, McDonald became an apprentice printer but fell ill and in 1905 moved to Mourilyan, North Queensland, where he helped to organize the Amalgamated Sugar Workers' Union. He became assistant secretary to the central political executive of the Queensland Labor Party on 30 August 1909. Secretary of the Queensland anti-conscription campaign committees in 1916-17, McDonald used his considerable administrative abilities to facilitate a 'No' vote both times. An extrovert, McDonald enjoyed a beer, could tell a good story, and liked old-time musical comedies. While he used his secretarial skills in the interests of the A.W.U. faction, he was never personally self-seeking, but he certainly facilitated the growth of an 'official' machine which, with its complaisant politicians, ultimately controlled the movement at the expense of the grassroots and the militant unions. John Curtin called him 'an admirable officer with sound judgment and resolute decision [whose] capacity for makeshift endeared him to all. Others, excluded from office and influence, were less charitable about this gentle, persistent, rule-mongering functionary. McDonald's early craft-union radicalism and personal political hopes were submerged by those structures, rules, and manipulations endemic in that Queensland Labor establishment which he had done so much to construct, refine, and facilitate. McDonald died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at Highgate Hill, Brisbane, on 18 September 1936. Although cremated with Anglican rites, McDonald had long maintained no formal creed. Source: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcdonald-lewis-7339

My mother had a saying that "Patrick Street Cork would be the finest street in the land if they only took the "Bind" (bend) out of it!!!" You can see the street from right to left down a couple of hundred metres.

Very amusing to note that Paris already brought a flavour of glamour... (Paris Studio)

Another Munster street view which hasn't changed all that markedly in >100 years. Most notable differences are the frontage of St. Patrick's Buildings (the "Paris Photo Studio" building opposite Daunt Sq) and the "extra window" which now bisects the W&B sign. (FYI - Pretty sure the extra window opening was added while still owned by W&B. Certainly it was there in the 80s when the building was converted - by W&B themselves - for use as a fast food place named Mandy's and definitely pre-dates McD's) Lots of historical W&B docs available in UCC Boole library archive. (Always knew W&B were an "institution" in Cork, but didn't know they owned the Oyster Tavern and half of Sheare Street!)

I love this :)

the late General Tom Barry, famous for his exploits in the Cork No.3 Brigade flying column in West Cork during the War of Independence, lived with his wife Leslie (née Price, founder of the Irish Red Cross), in a flat directly over Woodford Bourne for many years. The top window on the left would have been theirs from the 1940s until his death in 1980.

over spiced?

www.pinterest.ca/pin/555350197778681892/ indicates this is at 563 East Foothill, Asuza, CA

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FWIU these old-style McDonalds' were franchised by the McDonald brothers before Ray Kroc entered the picture and added a mandatory remodeling clause to the franchise agreement.