| In the year 1959 the first inflatable bounce house | | | | gained popularity. Frank the son of Frances had |
| was designed. John Scurlock from Shreveport, | | | | prolonged their rental business all over the United |
| Louisiana had done some experimentation with | | | | States under a brand title Space Walk and |
| inflatable swathes for tennis courts. He soon | | | | Inflatable Zoo. Frank also established the premier |
| noticed that his workers enjoyed jumping with | | | | inflatable indoor play park which is named as Fun |
| the inflatable covers. John Scurlock a mechanical | | | | Factory on Thanksgiving Day 1986 in Metairie, |
| engineer, then designed and manufactured some | | | | Louisiana. In 1987 the second unit of that park |
| inflatable tents, inflatable domes and inflatable | | | | was opened in Memphis Tennessee which is |
| signs. They soon become very popular and useful | | | | named as Fun Plex. They invented the first |
| for many. His greatest achievement in this field | | | | inflatable which was an open top mattress that |
| was the invention of safety air cushions. This | | | | had no sides and they named it as Space Pillow. |
| product is now widely used by fire and rescue | | | | To solve the warmth problem an innovative |
| departments to hold people jumping from heights. | | | | product was launched. It was in the year of 1974 |
| The first manufacturing company of inflatable and | | | | that Jupiter Jump was born. These jumps had |
| space walk was in New Orleans in a leased | | | | inflated columns to support netting walls so that |
| warehouse. In the year of 1968 a lady named | | | | the air can pass through (The Modern Jump). In |
| Frances started an inflatable rental company and | | | | the very beginning of 1990s Frank produced the |
| in 1976 they constructed a custom facility for the | | | | first commercial inflatable water slides which was |
| manufacture and leasing of such products. They | | | | called the Aqua Tunnel. |
| promoted their inflatable items in various events | | | | With the introduction of Computer Aided Design |
| like kid's birthday parties, school functions, picnics | | | | or CAD, the variety of jumpers offered today is |
| and many more occasions. Gradually inflatables | | | | huge and only limited to human imagination. |