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I lived in the city as a kid, so there wasn't any outdoor playgrounds for me. I liked going because of the toys that would come with the kids meal. Man, those toys were so cool back in the day..
It is sad how it's all kind of just been turned into mini-Discovery Zone. I don't think that place is even around anymore either.

I would so date a fry kid.

The local McDonalds didn't have any mascot-related equipment. In fact, it was little more than a wooden bridge. But I loved them so. My mother, however, got extremely paranoid about playground equipment, and forbid me to play on them.

When I was little, the best local restaurant playplace was at Braum's. In its heyday, before they had to redo it for safety or something else that kids would gladly risk anyway, it was the best ever. It even had a low-hanging zipline.
When I stayed at Irving [near Dallas, TX] for two weeks, they had a Braum's nearby. It didn't have a playplace, but it was cool in the fact that half the store was burgers [good ones] and the other half was an icecream shop, and they had little freezer fridges that had all different sorts of drinks.

We're talking about the same sort of place, yeah?
I remember playing on those! I always like the big purple dude that you would stand inside and shake him by grabbing those 2 bars. And I used to have a whole drawer full of those McD's HappyMeal toys. I'd get a little plastic basket, decide which ones I wanted to play with and then take them into the bath with me LOL.
I remember the Pie Tree. It was a plastic molded tree, with giant plastic cherry and apple pies interspersed among the leaves. We stole one in high school and hung it from our rear view mirror for years. We called it the Lucky Pie.

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