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00:01 MIKE: The phrase ketchup in your veins is
something we use in McDonalds, when yo, you love the business. When you feel that love.
00:11 COMM: Meet Mike Fountaine, owner of the world's
largest collection, of 75,000 pieces of McDonalds memorabilia.
00:20 COMM: The 60-year-old has spent almost half
a century amassing a gigantic haul of everything to do with the famous restaurant.
0:31 COMM: And his astonishing labour of love has
been meticulously catalogued and put on display in his home in Pennsylvania, USA.
00:40 COMM: Behind the doors of this seemingly ordinary
house is the colourful history of a global fast food favourite.
00:47 MIKE: I have glasses, I have happy meal toys,
happy meal displays, equipment, lapel pins. My table of contents is 398 different categories.
00:59 COMM: Nine rooms in Mike's home have been
given over to his collection, displayed on two miles of shelving.
01:06 COMM: This is my cup and glass room, and there's
over 1000 different McDonalds cups, glasses in all different categories.
01:15 COMM: Mike's career with McDonalds began as
a teenager in 1968, when he was just 15.
01:22 MIKE: I started with McDonalds when I was
15, and at age 30 I actually owned a McDonalds restaurant.
01:30 COMM: Today for the first time Mark is allowing
an archivist from the McDonalds corporation to see inside his home.
01:37 ARCHIVIST: In my opinion as a McDonalds archivist
I believe Mike has the most encompassing collection in the world. It's in pristine shape, they're
one of a kind pieces, it's just awesome.
01:48 COMM: With the collection still growing Mike
has big plans for the future of his life's work.
01:54 MIKE: My ultimate goal for this collection
is for McDonalds to help me build a museum, by charging the admission the money could
go to Ronald McDonald house charities to help kids around the world, who have cancer.