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I Found My Dad's McDonald's Collectibles. I Decided to Sell Them ...
Sarah Israel's dad was a McDonald's executive and kept tons of memorabilia from the 80s. Courtesy of Sarah Israel 2026-04-19T17:24:01.238Z Sarah Israel, 40, found boxes of McDonald's memorabilia from the '70s and '80s. Her dad, a McDonald's executive, collected pins, a burger lamp, and branded items. She felt nostalgic, and thousands online shared the same reaction. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sarah Israel. It has been edited for length and clarity. My dad has always been a collector. It was like a primal need of his, collecting.Ever since I can remember, he would take my siblings and me to yard sales, flea markets, and garage sales. I hated it and begged him to stop taking us along to look at garbage. I wanted to go to the movies, not talk to vendors at flea markets about what they had on offer.Although he collected anything and everything, or at least that's what it felt like, he only displayed his music. His records were all out in our music room. He had thousands of vinyl records and CDs.Almost everything else was just stored away in boxes in the basement: salt-and-pepper shakers, vintage shoes, and rooster figurines galore. This might have been a decision influenced by my mom, who hated clutter. I helped my parents downsizeWe didn't know the extent of what he had collected until recently, when all of us siblings have been helping my parents downsize. We went into the basement and slowly started opening boxes, one by one, not sure of what we would find.I opened a box, then a few more, all of which had McDonald's collectibles. My dad had been an executive with McDonald's for years in the 80s. He started as an assistant store manager here in Canada and eventually became the Training Director for the Canadian market, a role that involved lots of travel to the US for conferences. In the mid-80s, he moved to Paris to work as the Training Director for the European market, 19 countries in all, before finally settling back in Montreal in a role at the head office. The author's dad was a McDonald's executive. Courtesy of the author Throughout his years working for McDonald's, my dad had picked up various items along the way. Things that were very specific to wherever he was. There were Happy Meal toys, clocks, watches, mugs, clothing, a voice note recorder, and lots of pins.As I sorted through the boxes, all the memories came back to life of my childhood, the years before life became complicated. Life then was so simple, and w...
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