Critter McCoon's Pizza Showplace Tokens

Critter McCoon's Pizza Showplace opened on June 18, 1982 in Spokane, Washington as a family pizza venue with a salad bar, sundae bar, an adult lounge serving beer and wine, and an animatronic stage show for kids. The four-character pneumatic band, designed over roughly eight months by a local engineering team on a tight budget, was fronted by mascot Critter McCoon (a banjo-playing raccoon) alongside a male brown bear (Jed the Bar), a female skunk (presumed Petunia), and a female pig; show audio was produced by Chris Lobdell at Womach Recording Studios in Spokane. Unable to compete with the rapidly expanding Chuck E. Cheese's, the venue was bought out by Dimes Pizza around August 1983 and rebranded as Dimes n' Critters. The location was destroyed on September 17, 1984 when the original founder, deep in debt, set the building ablaze with gasoline.