re: 80s Kids- Where did you have your birthday parties growing up?

I didn't have many but I remember my fifth birthday party which was a couple years before my grandfather died in 1986.

He was into electronics and technology and as such he had worked for LP&L for close to 45 years. They let him come back to his job after WWII. He was always fascinated by the Rock-a-Fire Explosion so my fifth birthday was at Showbiz Pizza.

It will always have a special place in my heart till they decided to replace the characters with that rat bastard Chuck E Cheese and his cavalcade of bullshite characters and shite pizza. Then again it wasn't the company's fault, it was Aaron Fechter and his delusions of grandeur thinking he could take those characters past Showbiz.