The installations with the giant monopoly board display at the outdoor plaza, VivoCity for the Chinese New Year festival.
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The installations with the giant monopoly board display at the outdoor plaza, VivoCity for the Chinese New Year festival.
The installations with the giant monopoly board display at the outdoor plaza, VivoCity for the Chinese New Year festival.
The installations with the giant monopoly board display at the outdoor plaza, VivoCity for the Chinese New Year festival.
Monopoly sucks, it's so boring, and I get mad, and flip the whole board into the air bb shots fired!
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It looks like it's seen better days.
Monopoly in the Park in San Jose, California. January 2009.
Nob Hill, Albuquerque
www.nobhillmainstreet.org
As a child, my favourite board game was Monopoly. I think I loved it because it listed so many of the places that I knew around London. I also loved all the bright colours for the properties, and the pink Community Chest cards with their funny Art Deco cartoons on it. I know that my maternal Grandmother and I would always try and buy Park Lane and Mayfair and my maternal Grandfather liked Pall Mall, Whitehall and the Angel Islington, the latter because he lived in the Islington before the Second World War. I certainly never saw it in the way that adults do as you try and monopolise the London property Market and become the landlord king or queen! The set I played on was pre-war Waddington’s 1936 set, and I remember the Bakelite tokens we played with. Unlike the set produced today Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road were violet rather than brown, and Pall Mall, Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue were purple rather than pink. You will notice that I have replicated the violet colour of Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road on my board.
Sadly, my uncle took our Monopoly set at some stage and lost it, so this photo is my recreation using some of my miniatures collection, including a Heidi Ott top hat as a token, an the 1:12 miniature red stilettos that I recently acquired from England. It appears that they have landed on my favourite: Mayfair where there is a very grand Bendigo Pottery hotel. Time to pay your rent please!
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “games” was chosen by David, DaveSPN.
The locations on the standard British version of the board game Monopoly are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited. Victor became interested in the board game after his son Norman had tried the Parker Brothers original US version and recommended the company produce a board for the domestic market. He took his secretary Marjory Phillips on a day-trip from the head offices in Leeds to London and the pair looked for suitable locations to use. The London version of the game was successful, and in 1936 it was exported to Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, becoming the de facto standard board in the British Commonwealth.
