Monopoly at 85: Board game was key to freedom during World War II
Monopoly at 85: Board game was key to freedom during World War II
Monopoly at 85: Board game was key to freedom during World War II
By Jimmie Tramel
November 06, 2020
Summary
Jimmie Tramel: Monopoly at 85: Board game was key to freedom during World War II. You sort of had to be there to realize just how big this was, but on Feb. 22, 1980, the Cold War came to life on ice.
Bell said his family played a marathon game of monopoly while listening to audio of the hockey broadcast on the blacked-out TV. The Miracle on Ice was the lone upset that night.
Want to know who won the highest-stakes game of Monopoly ever? The good guys.
We're telling Monopoly stories because the classic board game has reached a milestone.
According to poll participants, 27% of Monopoly players have never completed a game.
Said Nena West Roberts, "When we were kids, my sister would flip the board and all the pieces over when she was done and say a tornado came through Monopoly Land.".
Robert Posten said he still uses his grandparents' 1961 Monopoly board - and a 1956 Clue board.
Can we all agree the best Monopoly story is the game helped the good guys during World War II? The Geneva Convention permitted the delivery of care packages to prisoners of war.
British intelligence and the U.K. manufacturer of Monopoly figured out how to turn the board game into an escape kit.
Victor Watson, a former chairman of the U.K. manufacturer of Monopoly, once told ABC News that, in the 1970s, he met with former POWs who had used the Monopoly games to escape a wartime camp in Germany.
Reference
Tramel, J. (2020, November 06). Jimmie Tramel: Monopoly at 85: Board game was key to freedom during World War II. Retrieved November 07, 2020, from https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/jimmie-tramel-monopoly-at-85-board-game-was-key-to-freedom-during-world-war-ii/article_123d400e-1d58-11eb-a38c-9f48ec628d0e.html