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Grandma”. “Here’s your Happy Meal in his hand. I was unknowingly angled
KAYE’S COLLECTOR CORNER Bubulah”, Grandma would say. She was just right to sabotage his performance,
and after he realized, he changed his
wiser than I because she would make
By Mike Kaye sure to take out the burger first and not angle. The parties there were memorable
and sometimes memories are all you
rely on me to eat it, she had a plan.
“Here’s the Playland Carousel, do have to hold onto from loved ones
you want to go on it?”, Grandma would you shared them with, who have since
ask. “Yes”, I replied to Grandma. She’d passed. I sometimes ponder why more
McDONALDS PLAYLAND ERA put me on the carousel and as it would photos weren’t taken, because you don’t
realize until years later how much you
turn, she’d be standing in place holding
the hamburger. As I whipped around, would’ve enjoyed looking at them today.
As a child of the 80s I can’t help but Food is not something every kid distracted, she would say, “open your Many of the photos I have are from
look back at how much my nutrition was cherishes early in mouth” and as I approached her with my family trips and the good times we had.
influenced by a clown, yes, a clown. life, to some it’s mouth wide open, she’d stuff a piece of Traveling the country as a young child
I wasn’t a very good eater, so my an afterthought. the burger into my mouth. I was eating and only wanting to eat at McDonalds,
mom decided to take me to McDonalds. Cookies are fine, in McDonald Playland and I didn’t even while the rest of my family wanted
She would get me a Happy Meal® but hamburgers with realize it. to eat at the many restaurants we
(created the same year I was created in ketchup and mustard As time passed, I had a couple passed in different states. My brother
1976). I remember spending time looking and heaven forbid what Birthdays at McDonalds. Playland will occasionally remind me of the
at the beautiful artwork and fun games else on top are more like was a magical place. Grimmace and Vegas buffets, which he would starve
on the outside of the Happy Meal box. finding the Wolfman hidden in Ronald showed up at the party and waiting for because I would have to eat
Looking back now, I admire just how your closest. Mom would say I’d even a magician. All my friends were McDonalds first.
much work was actually put into those have to eat so that I’m not hungry, amazed at the magician, but I was As an adult, now having my own
boxes, unlike the more generic computer but my eyes would say “cookies the kid who irked him, when I saw a child, I decided to have a birthday at
created designs you’ll find on today’s are food right”? A child may black string coming McDonalds, but claim it was for my
packaging. I’d open the Happy Meal and be able to resist against Mom’s from his shirt one-year old son, when it was actually
see the chocolate cookie box, which, if commands, but then there’s which made for me. We share a birthday in the same
you ask me, was way more appealing Grandma. the deck of week, so I invited family and rented
than the clear plastic it was eventually Back in 1981, I remember my cards move out the McDonalds playground. It was
replaced with, not to mention how the Grandma going to McDonalds with a couple hundred dollars to do this
number of cookies in it dwindled. Then me and they were selling Empire but well worth it. I got to relive my
there was the surprise toy inside which Strikes Back character glasses Shown: Ronald McDonald statue stands approx. childhood memories thirty years later.
was like finding gold. It would be some for $2.00 each. The one we got 6’ value $1,800. Painted resin. Plaster cast, The Hamburglar showed up and I felt
cheap plastic item, typically in one color featured Luke Skywalker, and hand painted hamburger originally mounted in like Tom Hanks in the movie “Big”, a
but it didn’t matter because it was yours when it was handed to me briefly, it was a McDonalds as the decor. Value $250+. Acrylic grown man in a child’s body.
to keep. The last item in the box was, oh like holding a Heisman trophy. Mom arches (shown above) originally made for the Continued on Page 29
yeah, food. said, “It’s glass honey, give it back to top of the drivethru exit sign. Value $300.
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