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Design and Architecture

CES preview, designing the golden arches

Hosted by Frances Anderton Jan. 03, 2017
CES, the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, turns 50 this year. Is it still relevant? And the fast food empire we know as McDonald's started as a burger stand in San Bernardino. Lisa Napoli explains how the post-World War II building boom of freeways and suburbs birthed a food culture.

Photo: The first McDonald's franchise, located west of Chicago. It was opened by Ray Kroc in 1955. Photograph in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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CES preview

The New Year kicks off with CES, or the Consumer Electronics Show, a mega-trade show and conference in Las Vegas where the latest tech gadgets are unveiled. The show turns...

11 min

Designing the golden arches

Fast food is such a part of our lives we forget that someone invented it -- and all the architecture, packaging and paraphernalia that go along with it.

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Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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