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  1. That weird looking Ronald McDonald is actually Willard Scott, from one of the first three pre-recorded television advertisements to feature Ronald. Note the “food-tray hat”.Willard Scott (a local radio personality who also played Bozo the Clown on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. from 1959 until 1962) performed using the moniker Ronald McDonald in 1963 on three separate television spots. These were the first three television ads featuring the character, whose appearance was substantially similar to the original (George Voorhees) Ronald Mcdonald (spelled with a lower-case “d”) as shown in the Valley News and Green Sheet, a San Fernando Valley newspaper of the time.

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