Inset: Chris Louis (Augusta Police Dept.). Background: The McDonald’s where Louis allegedly left his three young kids unattended (Google Maps). A 24-year-old father in Georgia was arrested for ...

McDonald's PlayPlaces were first introduced in the ... The McDonalds near me had an indoor playground with giant ball pit!" For those too young to know, this is what it looked like in the 80's ...

McDonald’s does still offer kids parties and encourages parents to hold them at locations with indoor or outdoor PlayPlaces. Its restaurant locator, however, doesn’t currently provide that ...

A customer noticed that the three kids, aged 1, 6, and 10, were left alone inside McDonald’s, which included a “PlayPlace,” the name of its indoor playground. Authorities arrived at the ...

Current plans, however, include the removal of the indoor PlayPlace. The future of the playground area’s Ronald McDonald statue, which was the victim of an attempted kidnapping last year ...

Who created the McDonald’s Happy Meal? 40 years later, the answer is complicated. In 1982, restaurants introduced either indoor or outdoor playground areas, which later became known as PlayPlaces.

"I read somewhere that McDonald's at one time was the second-largest playground operator in the country because they had playgrounds everywhere. So there's a snapshot in time that Generation X ...