Melrose Park, Illinois: McD's Performing Moon - Mac Tonight
Orphaned star of a McDonald's "late nite hours" campaign, 1986-1997. The moon-headed "Mac Tonight" wears a tuxedo and sits at a real piano.
- Address:
- 2627 Mannheim Rd, Melrose Park, IL
- Directions:
- Chicago area, Mannheim Rd/US Hwy 12 south of W Grand Ave.
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McD's Performing Moon - Mac Tonight Moon character in a tux sitting at a grand piano. In McDonald's on Rt. 12.
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Though now he appears like some lonely lunar Elephant Man, his origins largely forgotten, Mac Tonight was part of a "late hours" ad campaign for McDonald's that appeared between 1986 and 1997. These displays must have been expensive, because the few establishments we've seen them at never seem to want to give up the classy touch of a dapper piano-playing moon.