Discovery Zone
'DZ' — the indoor playground empire of padded mazes, tube slides, ball pits, and birthday parties. Exploded across the '90s, then vanished almost overnight.
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McDonald's PlayPlace
Ball pits, crawl tubes, and birthday parties that smelled like fries. The PlayPlace made McDonald's the restaurant kids begged for — by 1991 the chain was America's largest playground operator.