The two hamburger wrappers that were found also bear the initial logo from the fast food industry’s launch in 1955.
While making renovations to their home, a couple discovered some perfectly preserved McDonald’s fries inside the bathroom wall.
The kitchen and bathroom were replaced when Grace and Rob Jones decided to purchase their 63-year-old home in Crystal Lake, Illinois, in 2015. But on April 16, Rob started removing the original toilet paper holder from the house, giving them a gift from the past.
It was actually quite difficult to remove that. I had to use chisels and pliers to dig it out since it was wedged in like old plaster, Rob said Today. “As I was doing that, I could see through one of the corners something in there—some kind of material or anything.”
After discovering two McDonald’s hamburger wrappers and a side of preserved fries inside the wall, he dialed his wife.
“We just sort of think,” says Rob, “that whoever was building the house went there for lunch and it fell in there on purpose, or they did it on purpose.”
The fast food chain’s initial mascot, Speedee, and its 1995-debuting logo were displayed on the wrappers.
Because her mother attended the opening ceremony of the first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, Illinois, that same year, Grace was able to travel through time.
She was there when they opened it, Grace told Today. Since it transports her back to her childhood, she is ecstatic, so… She still remembers what a cheeseburger and fries cost when the establishment first opened.
The wrappers and fries are reportedly kept in a container on top of the Joneses’ refrigerator. Grace is quoted in the article as saying, “For the right money, we’d be pleased to sell them.”