How Toronto kids celebrated birthdays in the 1980s Toronto
For children who grew up in the Toronto of the 80s, birthday parties could be as random as loot-bags: some good stuff, some junk, but a prize nonetheless.
Parents on a budget could alternatively rent Photon sets, or World of Wonder's cool LazerTag branded weapons and sensors, but playing in a back yard just couldn't compete with getting your war on in a fogged-out warehouse in Scarborough.
A pleasing but simple set B-day menu topped off with McDonaldland character cake, all consumed while rocking a paper Grimace hat=sheer bliss.The groovy Doug Hennings and the more solemn David Copperfield refreshed magic in popular culture during the 1970s, leading to a frenzy of birthday party magicians for hire in the '80s.
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