Junior Oscar Millerhaller’s parents owned a birthday party business for a while he was in fourth and fifth grade.

The business was called Port-a-Parties. Port-a-Parties included games that could be packed into a van and driven to where ever the party was wanted.

Millerhaller’s parents owned Port-a-Parties at a good time in his childhood.

“I got to play with a bunch of really cool toys. I really loved playing in the big human-sized hamster balls. It was the coolest thing ever,” Millerhaller said.

“I got to have free birthday parties. We had this big human gyroscope that would spin you around, you know those things like they use to train you for outer space. I did that for my birthday,” Millerhaller said.

Other exciting games included in the Port-a-Party were laser tag and long-range water balloon catapults.

Millerhaller’s mother was looking for something to do, so she bought the Port-a-Party van.

“She was thinking about buying a mini golf course, then she decided to do that instead,” Millerhaller said. “Either one would have been cool.”

Port-a-parties did well for a while, but Millerhaller’s parents moved on after about two years.  

“Now my dad is in the ticket business and my mom owns a bagel shop,” Millerhaller said. “She went from birthday parties to bagels.”