Stanley Clark Meston (7 January 1910 – 30 December 1992) was an American architect most famous for designing the original Golden Arches of McDonald's restaurants.
"[3] Born in Oxnard, California, in 1910, Meston attended Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, taking basic courses in drafting and architectural history.
As did several more prominent Los Angeles architects during the Great Depression, he also worked for a time as a set designer, at Universal Pictures.
"Nothing in the East compares with the best things of this sort in Los Angeles", wrote Henry-Russell Hitchcock in 1940, praising in particular McAllister's Van de Kamp's design.
[3] When the McDonald brothers hired Meston, they offered him a choice of being paid a flat fee or a commission each time a new restaurant was built.