Board Game Season

With the temps here are home plunging to cold temps we are in the season of board games. One of those great board games is Monopoly. How did the great game get its start and why do the places have familiar street names?? 

One board game Monopoly was invented in the early 20th century. It started out under the name of The Landlord's Game. The inventor of the game Elizabeth Magie an American. Between 1906 and 1930 a series of board games came on the scene with a theme of buying and selling of land In 1933 a version of Monopoly was produced by Parker Brothers. 

The object of the original game was to show rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants. It was one of the first board games to use a continuous path without clearly defined spaces and signs. 

Magie a native of Illinois moved to Washington D.C. with her husband Andrew Phillips in 1923. A second version of the Landlords game that included street names Some streets like "Lake Shore Drive" were named after streets in the Chicago area. In addition, Ruth Hoskins from Indianapolis invented another version taking it back to her home in Atlantic City where she changed the street names and railroads to relate to Atlantic City. In addition other locations helped change the name of the streets to relate to the areas in which they lived. 

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