<P> With low sales, damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and the lack of a drive - up window and indoor seating, the restaurant was closed, and McDonald's planned to demolish it and incorporate some of its features in a modern "retro" restaurant nearby . However, it was listed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 1994 list of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places . With both the public and preservationists demanding the restaurant be saved, McDonald's spent two years restoring the restaurant and reopened it . Customers today can visit the restored restaurant and an adjoining gift shop and museum . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Very few early McDonald's restaurants remain, largely because McDonald's Corporation required its franchisees to update their buildings . The original hexagonal McDonald's hamburger stand in San Bernardino was demolished in 1953 to be replaced by a building in the now familiar Golden Arches style; in an oversight, the McDonald brothers failed to retain rights to the McDonald's name when they sold the chain to Kroc, and were forced to rename it "The Big M". It went out of business and was demolished in 1972, although part of the sign remains; an independent McDonald's museum was opened on the site in 1998 . </P>

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