You can tell Monopoly is an old game

[bearssoapbox]

[liberal N proud]

2. Good one!

[daleanime]

3. ........

[shenmue]

4. Ha ha!

[rurallib]

5. and there is no way to buy politicians

[Jack Rabbit]

6. !!

[Shandris]

7. LOL!

Very nice find, saved and stored!

[Helen Borg]

8. There is no free parking either!

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

[Blue Owl]

10. And four railroads merged into one

n/t

[tecelote]

11. Most Monopoly players don't know ...

...that this game was originally the product of a passion for social and economic justice.

http://www.henrygeorge.org/dodson_on_monopoly.htm

[bearssoapbox]

12. Thanks for the link.

I looked at wiki and a couple of other links but didn't check that one.

Interesting how it started out and was around for so long before Parker Brothers got it.

Another thing I found interesting:

"By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29|

I have a 1955 (year I was born and belonged to uncle that gave it to me when I was 8 when we moved to Ohio from S. Dakota) & 1965 version (Christmas present to save the older one), both still in good condition.

I can't count the hours playing that game.

Take care.

edit to put in link: Had to hurry, suppertime. Will fix later if doesn't work.

[eridani]

14. It's an excellent illustration of the effects of wealth concentration

When one player has all the money, the game ends. By implication, when a few have most of the money, the game gets very sluggish--excellent description of our present economy.

Now, what do you have to do if you want to keep playing?

[Curmudgeoness]

15. Sell your soul????

I was the absolute worst Monopoly player ever. I was always the first one out, and had to sit for hours with my thumb up my butt. Even as a kid, I was apparently not a very good capitalist.

[eridani]

21. If someone wins, the game ends. To keep on playing, you take the winner's money--

--and divide it up among the other players again.

[Curmudgeoness]

35. Can we take it with guns and pitchforks?

That would put a new twist on it.

[eridani]

38. And tumbrils. We ought to bring those back into fashion n/t

[backscatter712]

16. One guy on Facebook quipped...

Monopoly games end in one of two ways: One player gets all the money and everyone else gets nothing, or a player overturns the board and punches the banker in the face.

[Papa]

17. Monopoly is a perfect illustration of what happens when you have unregulated capitalism

Eventually all the money goes to the top and nobody else has a pot to piss in.

[bearssoapbox]

18. Good description

I don't think it ever came to blows but there might have been a few "accidental" board overturns.

[father founding]

36. Sounds familiar

You have played at my house before ?

[maggies farm]

25. Monopoly board: Fairhope Ave and Fairhope, AL

"Fairhope Avenue" was one of the properties on the 1910 version of the board game The Landlord's Game, a precursor of Monopoly."

Fairhope Ave and fairhope,AL

I grew up in the SingleTax colony of Fairhope AL based upon Henry George author of, Progress and Poverty. I have always taken the concept seriously and it has profoundly influenced my life.

"Fairhope was founded in November 1894 on the site of former Alabama City as a single tax colony by the Fairhope Industrial Association, a group of 28 followers of economist Henry George who had incorporated earlier that year in Des Moines, Iowa.[5] Their corporate constitution explained their purpose in founding a new colony:

"to establish and conduct a model community or colony, free from all forms of private monopoly, and to secure to its members therein equality of opportunity, the full reward of individual efforts, and the benefits of co-operation in matters of general concern."[6]
In forming their demonstration project, they pooled their funds to purchase land at "Stapleton's pasture" on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay and then divided it into a number of long-term leaseholds.[citation needed] The corporation paid all governmental taxes from rents paid by the lessees, thus simulating a single-tax. The purpose of the single-tax colony was to eliminate disincentives for productive use of land and thereby retain the value of land for the community."

[Laelth]

33. Interesting. Thanks for posting. n/t

-Laelth

[GoneFishin]

13. Awesome.

[DesertDiamond]

19. Also, anybody can get enough money to buy property and have the chance for upward mobility.

[wickerwoman]

30. And anybody can go bankrupt because of a few unlucky rolls.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

20. Some players

can go to jail for no damn good reason except being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You know, just like today.

[Cha]

22. An obsolete game in today's atmosphere of Koch toadies, bears!

[bearssoapbox]

23. True

Compared to them...

Never mind.

No way could anyone with a conscience or scruples be compared to them.

[Cha]

24. I'll give a go.. here's the poster template now..

[bearssoapbox]

27. I dunno.

?

I see some are having trouble with DU. I'm having trouble with everything except DU.

[Cha]

28. I see the resemblance!

And, now I'm not having trouble with anything.. Go figure. Here's to everyone getting their tech problems Fixed! I hated it when I couldn't get on DU.

[Kalidurga]

26. saved it

wish it wasn't so true

[madokie]

29. Used to play it all the time when I was just a kid

not sure when it first hit the market but we started playing it somewhere around 1961.
At first Dad wouldn't let us because of the Dice but he finally gave in. In my rather large family, 13 to begin with 8 still living none of us go to the casinos. Gambling was something our Dad was strictly against.

[blkmusclmachine]

31. ,

,

[Laelth]

32. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[yurbud]

34. great one

[knightmaar]

37. Not really, you can pay $50 to get out of jail.

Sounds very accurate