CWC Pics

[mst3kluv]

As mentioned, look at that tube playground, so tiny and boring compared to DZ and even the Mega McDonalds in Orlando Florida.

The only real childhood memory I have of Chuck E. Cheeses is that was where I beat "The Simpsons Arcade Game" for the first time. The pizza was real shit too.

Oh, and I just remembered, there does exist a Chuck E. Cheese for adults, it seems. Too bad Chris doesn't clean up and try hang out here.

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I've never been there though, but I'll bet the food is much better.

Too many drunken JERKS.

 

[MysticMisty]

Why we talking about Chuck E Cheeses?

In the early 90s, DZ, Discovery Zone, was the place to be. The tube system playground was a lot better than ANY Chuck E Cheese I went to.

Edit: Oh, Chuck E Cheese actually bought out their locations? Oh phooey, now I have a moot point :x

Oh man. Even though the nearest Discovery Zone had to have been in Denver we'd see ads for them all the time in Rapid City and goddamn I really wanted to go! And when we moved here, holy shit, WE HAD ONE! Unfortunately by the time my mom had decided we'd moved in enough to finally take me we discovered it had closed down for good, like, the week before or so.

One of these days I want to go to Dave and Busters. It really does seem to be Chuck E Cheese for adults, and yeah the food looks a lot more high quality, but also probably really pricey so it wouldn't appeal to Chris much. He'd probably prefer to spend the same amount of money on McDonald's for more food and not care about the quality.

 

[Stratochu]

Liked DZ as a kid, still get bits & pieces of the ad jingle stuck in my head. I preferred a mom-and-pop version called Funbase1, that had everything a child could want, including a castle playarea, Kettler Kettcar "race track" for those awesome human-powered toy race cars, crawl-through mazes, bounce houses, super roller slide into a huge vat of balls, great prizes to win with game tickets, and not as noisy since they played what I now know & love as "space music", plus the nickel arcades and the awesome 80s/90s retro arcade at Gateway Mall in Springfield (now part of a Chuck E. Cheese) were a blast. OPL would have enjoyed them as a kid, DZ and Funbase1 are long gone due to DZ's demise and sex offenders working at FunBase1, whick reemerged in Eugene for a while as "All That and More". The nickel arcades and big retro arcade were casualties of the economy and tastes going toward consoles, RPG and TCG gaming & PC gaming.

The science museum/planetarium here are kid-friendly, as are Evergreen Air & Space Museum in McMinnville & OMSI in Portland, and would have at least been tolerated by OPL, and the telephone museum, antique clock museum, art museum, historical and natural history museums, the "Gallery of Unfine Art", the pioneer museums up in Brownsville and Oregon City, and the fishing, maritime, truck & machinery, Native American, farming & logging industry museums, would be Bob magnets. Enchanted Forest in Salem is all-ages and autism friendly, as are Oaks Park and Jantzen Beach in Portland. Chris would like it if he could dig Mother Goose, Uncle Remus, Alice in Wonderland and Aesop's Fables & old-time amusement parks as themes, and the Gilbert House in Salem has vidya and toys, Bob would have loved all of them.

If Borb and OPL lived in the mid-Willamette Valley area of Oregon, Chris would have had exciting day trips with Bob and/or to places both would enjoy to some degree, but DZ, FunBase, All That & More and Tilt (retro arcade) would cause sensory overload.

In short, a properly treated, continent, socialized autist with nerd and/or anorak tendencies, or an educated neurotypical elder nerd like Bob was, would dig all of Northwest Oregon's attractions, but OPL wouldn't like or couldn't handle most..

And sorry for the threadjack.

 

[Mrs Paul]

I don't know, my parents weren't old, but when I was a kid, we never had birthdays at Chuck E. Cheese or anything fancy. All of my birthday parties as a kid were family affairs with my grandparents and my aunts and uncles and my cousins. (Us kids were always close, so we always had fun) And when I got older, it was mostly me and my friends hanging out, going to the movies, or something like that. The year I turned fifteen, my parents took me and my two best friends to a local amusement park, and when I was seventeen, my birthday happened to fall on the same day as my uncle's company picnic at a different amusement park, but that's about it. I went to Chuck E. Cheese maybe twice, when I was in the school band.

I mean, I did go to the zoo and the museum a few times, but my family didn't always have the money to do big fancy things. I was in Girl Scouts, and I did a lot of stuff there. We bought a pool pass every summer, but we never went on vacation. (Considering my parents were paying for us to go to Catholic school, that had a lot to do with it) Even then, friends' birthday parties were usually at peoples' houses with cake and games. (At least as kids)

I wouldn't say I was like Chris, though. Like I said, my cousins and I were always at each others' houses, and I was always hanging out with my friends. Plus, MY grandparents did have a lot for us kids. They had a slip-and-slide there, and my grandmother always had ice cream and stuff.

Maybe if Borb hadn't pushed so hard for Chris to be mainstreamed, he might have made some friends he could relate to. It seems like they tried to isolate him almost on purpose.

 

[theobservdr]

They pretty much failed to mainstream him, unless there was some external input from the extended family, they saw he had special needs and figured he was a lost cause before even giving him a chance.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

It took The Borb seven years to get him some treatment. Most parents, when they find their child can't talk by the age of two, get some help right away.

I'd say they never really cared about what was best for him.

I have major issues with the "mute until seven" story... But assuming it's true, yes, I agree. Not taking a child like that for treatment is a sign that you truly don't give a shit.

 

[Batman]

It took The Borb seven years to get him some treatment. Most parents, when they find their child can't talk by the age of two, get some help right away.

I'd say they never really cared about what was best for him.

I have major issues with the "mute until seven" story... But assuming it's true, yes, I agree. Not taking a child like that for treatment is a sign that you truly don't give a shit.

I believe the story. Listen to him speak.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

It took The Borb seven years to get him some treatment. Most parents, when they find their child can't talk by the age of two, get some help right away.

I'd say they never really cared about what was best for him.

I have major issues with the "mute until seven" story... But assuming it's true, yes, I agree. Not taking a child like that for treatment is a sign that you truly don't give a shit.

I believe the story. Listen to him speak.

Chris claims his mom bought him toys if he would say the name of the toy. This was well before he would have been seven.

Chris was mainstreamed in public school. I strongly doubt a totally mute kid would have made it through 2-3 years of school without some form of accommodation.

The source for this claim is the same family who says Chris said "monkey" at six weeks old.

... Yeah, I don't buy it.

 

[MysticMisty]

I have major issues with the "mute until seven" story... But assuming it's true, yes, I agree. Not taking a child like that for treatment is a sign that you truly don't give a shit.

I believe the story. Listen to him speak.

Chris claims his mom bought him toys if he would say the name of the toy. This was well before he would have been seven.

Chris was mainstreamed in public school. I strongly doubt a totally mute kid would have made it through 2-3 years of school without some form of accommodation.

The source for this claim is the same family who says Chris said "monkey" at six weeks old.

... Yeah, I don't buy it.

Also the same family that happily claims that Bob basically invented plastic and that we wouldn't have soda bottles or video games if it wasn't for Bob's patents.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Didn't Chris claim that prior to him speaking, he communicated via screeching and pointing? If he always managed to get what he wanted using this method, then he'd feel no compulsion to talk. If there's one constant with Chris, it's that he'll never put any more effort into something than is absolutely necessary.

 

[milkshark]

Imagine in an alternate reality, Bob and Barb never had Chris...

 

[CWCissey]

Imagine in an alternate reality, Bob and Barb never had Chris...

Dear God that was an unfortunate time to take a pic. It's like Barb went into default mode next to a man (or the cake).

Also.

 

[Tiresome]

Dang. Poor Bob was the only member of that family who looked normal, even pleasant, in photographs.

 

[normankrasner]

http://www.sonichu.com/w/images/3/34/0033-MommasBirthday.jpg

Imagine in an alternate reality, Bob and Barb never had Chris...

If Barb was pro-choice, there would be no sonichu

 

[TrippinKahlua]

I think its so stupid to take photographs of people blowing out the candles.

I know I'd sure hate to have a picture of me making that face.

 

[CWCissey]

I think its so stupid to take photographs of people blowing out the candles.

I know I'd sure hate to have a picture of me making that face.

Yeah the only person who can get away with making that face is Ian Brown.

And that's only because he's very simian looking in the first place.

 

[milkshark]

Also.

This is uncanny... Anna is basically young Barb. It wouldn't be too surprising if she met an old karaoke crooner several years from now and popped out an exceptional individual of her own.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

I'm still creeped out by that pic due to CWC looking like a mean kid who used to bully me in elementary school

 

[MysticMisty]

I think its so stupid to take photographs of people blowing out the candles.

I know I'd sure hate to have a picture of me making that face.

I have had my picture taken while blowing out candles. Honestly I don't mind, but that might be because I tend to blink during pictures which makes me look 1000x more retarded then when I blow out candles.

 

[Dr.Research]

I don't think anyone has posted this one yet.

She may not be looking as good as when Chris was born, but I think this picture was meant to be kind of goofy and lighthearted. Or she's making fun of her son's death grip on his most sacred hero.