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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the "olden day" we had 10 kids or less at home for 2 hours with cake.  The end.[/quote]

I was born in '76 and had exactly ONE birthday party at home - my second birthday. Every other one was at a place, there were at least 20 kids (I had a lot of friend-groups), and they were 2.5 hours. [/quote]

I was born in 78 in an umc suburb (not DC) and there was always one or two kids in my class every year who did a whole-class rented venue party. I specifically remember the other parents talking about how they threw those parties to compensate for other things. Like, Tara's dad was under indictment for stealing serious money from the childrens hospital, and laura's family looked like they had money but turns out it was all a facade. In fact, my mom has become friends with laura's mom in retirement and it turns out they have zero money, had to sell the $2m home, and her mom now works minimum wage to pay the bills.

I kid you not. The ONLY kids throwing expensive parties in the 80s were people who felt they had to prove something.  Given the old negative reputation, i'm not sure how these whole-class monster parties became the norm.  [/quote]

Oh, that's an exaggeration.  I was born in 1972 and grew up in solidly middle class neighborhoods in small crappy cities.  I distinctly remember some designation parties--roller rink, ice skating, and even a Chuck E. Cheese party in about 1982 or 1983.  None of these parents had anything to prove.  Agree that the majority of parties were at people's homes but it wasn't weird to have a low key party out of house.  I think back then they basically just charged her admission the the roller rink, though--they didn't have all these bells and whistles and two teenagers paid to keep the kids in line.[/quote]

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