Fri., August 7, 1936 - Just had a hot pack today as I had a funny pain in my chest. Rained most of the day. Tonite we were invited by our foot doctors Hazel Linard and Dorothy Masters to play Monopoly with them. We were just nicely started when we had to go home because they had a call to fix a lady's sprained ankle.
Sat., August 8, 1936 - Iny took her last bath yesterday. She read while I took mine. We went to a beauty shop this p.m. and had our hair shampooed and waved. We didn't like the place very well.
Sun., August 9, 1936 - I took my last bath today. Carrie Sweet, Dora & Olga came down today to visit Aunt Kate. They persuaded us girls to wait until Tuesday and go home then when they do.
Ah, Monopoly. The creator of family feuds and angry board-flipping incidents. But, still fun. Here's what wikipedia had to say about the game's history. Interestingly, it appears it was still very new when Grandma and her group were attempting to play.
"The board game Monopoly has its origins in the early 20th century. The earliest known version of Monopoly, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902. Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of Economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation. A series of board games were developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. By 1933, a board game had been created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its related companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. Several people, mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution."
We all know what a Monopoly board looks like, so I'm sharing a page from the patent submission of its precursor.
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